Steve, so lovely to meet you today, meet another Tanya acolyte in the flesh! And this piece! How it resonates so much with me. Careless and neglectful. watching your life-sands slip away. "My shape was all wrong". I'm having that, stealing it, it fits me so much, what an eloquent way to express unbelonging. and debilitating familial…
Steve, so lovely to meet you today, meet another Tanya acolyte in the flesh! And this piece! How it resonates so much with me. Careless and neglectful. watching your life-sands slip away. "My shape was all wrong". I'm having that, stealing it, it fits me so much, what an eloquent way to express unbelonging. and debilitating familial approval. I still have that, it is fixed in my psyche, however hard I try to fight it down. I'm glad you are freer now, your writing needs to be seen. All best x
I'm home now but can't quite believe that you were both (unbeknownst to me at first!) in the Ilkley workshop, and that you are one of mentees this year Sally (the applications are strictly anonymised so I don't know who I'm choosing).
Steve doesn't often log on here, but please leave your comment here for him to find, Sally, as he has just said over on Twitter how great it was to meet you. There feels to be a rich regional pool of emerging writers in second half of life happening where you are, and I have an instinct you both - with Geoff Cox if he's interested - might be able to bring still more people together in a future season...
Hi Sally, really good to meet you on Saturday. I'm glad you could connect with that piece. It means a lot to me to dig out the harshness from the past and sieve it through and express my feelings about it. I give it to you with pleasure. Take care x
Steve, so lovely to meet you today, meet another Tanya acolyte in the flesh! And this piece! How it resonates so much with me. Careless and neglectful. watching your life-sands slip away. "My shape was all wrong". I'm having that, stealing it, it fits me so much, what an eloquent way to express unbelonging. and debilitating familial approval. I still have that, it is fixed in my psyche, however hard I try to fight it down. I'm glad you are freer now, your writing needs to be seen. All best x
I'm home now but can't quite believe that you were both (unbeknownst to me at first!) in the Ilkley workshop, and that you are one of mentees this year Sally (the applications are strictly anonymised so I don't know who I'm choosing).
Steve doesn't often log on here, but please leave your comment here for him to find, Sally, as he has just said over on Twitter how great it was to meet you. There feels to be a rich regional pool of emerging writers in second half of life happening where you are, and I have an instinct you both - with Geoff Cox if he's interested - might be able to bring still more people together in a future season...
Hi Sally, really good to meet you on Saturday. I'm glad you could connect with that piece. It means a lot to me to dig out the harshness from the past and sieve it through and express my feelings about it. I give it to you with pleasure. Take care x