
THE ART OF SLOW WRITING
Leslie Tate I’m a slow author. It took three years to write my latest book Ways To Be Equally Human. That’s an average of 40 words per day. So, if you were reading my book you’d have reached my daily

LISA DART – SURVIVAL POETRY AND THE VOICES OF EXPERIENCE
I interviewed Lisa Dart, finalist in the Grolier, Aesthetica and Troubadour Poetry Prizes and author of The Linguistics of Light (poems, Salt, 2008), Fathom (prose memoir, Free Association Press, 2019), and This Thing of Darkness, an experimental, illustrated book (IPBooks,

COMEDY AND SCRIPTING TV/RADIO WITH 5% VISION
I interviewed TV, film and radio scriptwriter Annalisa Dinnella, who performs stand-up comedy and has about 5% vision. Annalisa, who is currently working on a

EAST-WEST ART AND THE SOUL OF EXPATRIATE WOMEN
I interviewed Iranian-born artist Maliheh Zafarnezhad about her transformational East-West art focussing on women’s feelings and experiences in exile. Maliheh has lived in Iran, Ireland

GAY, GIFTED AND BLACK
Andreena Leeanne is a poet, an abuse survivor and a truth-speaker. I interviewed Andreena about her writing and creativity, her childhood experiences, being black and

FAITHFUL UNCERTAINTY
I interviewed photographer and theologian Werner Ustorf about his left-leaning ‘Agnostic Lutheranism’, his work as ‘Chair in Mission’ at Birmingham University, his writings about the

POETRY, WRITING GROUPS AND CEREBRAL PALSY
I interviewed Kuli Kohli who says about herself: “I was born with mild cerebral palsy in northern India and moved to England at an early

ART & GRIEF THERAPY, MARK MAKING & WOMEN’S CIRCLES
I interviewed Art Therapist and Counsellor Charlotte Jane Kessler about her therapeutic work in health/drug centres and her art therapy, grief work and women’s circles. Charlotte