by matildaleyser | Oct 26, 2023 | On Writing
I am standing in a field, outside a large marquee at a literary festival. I am on in fifteen minutes. The event going on in the marquee right now is an award ceremony: the Primadonna prize 2023 – the lucky winner will get money and representation from a top...
by matildaleyser | Sep 21, 2023 | In the World, To the Heart
Directly outside the home which we will soon be leaving is a hedge – a tangle of hawthorn, holly and blackberry. At present, whenever I open the door the blackberries look at me – the segment of each berry, a shiny dark pupil. I look back at their many...
by matildaleyser | Aug 22, 2023 | In the World, To the Heart
Image by Richard Haughton We are nearly there. But not. Quite. Yet. We have – as anyone who regularly reads these blogs will know – been moving towards moving house for about a year. At long last we are ‘under offer,’ and last...
by matildaleyser | Jul 17, 2023 | In the World, To the Heart
Image by Mika Rosenfeld A surprising number of times a week, I have to tell someone my address, or type it down, enter it on a form – the postcode, the house number. I have to select the county from a dropdown menu. Then scroll through all the countries in the...
by matildaleyser | Jul 3, 2023 | Mothers who Make
Photo by Mika Rosenfeld Mothers who Make began in the summer of 2014 – incredibly that makes it now nine years old. And I still get challenged, as I did then, about why it’s for mums. Why exclude the dads? “They have challenges too!” “Why isn’t it Parents...
