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I wrote about failure – all part of the process for writers – on the SailFest blog here
SailFest aims to link South Asian authors, illustrators and poets writing for children and teens with peers, publishers people and book influencers – for more information, visit https://www.sailfest.org.uk
I’ve enjoyed taking part in the https://writebeyondborders.co.uk mentoring scheme with brilliant Sri Lankan poet Madri Kalugala. Mentee Zahra Mayeesha kindly wrote up my tips on editing for their masterclass series here
I loved writing about building alternate worlds for Pen To Print and Writers & Artists. You can read the article here: https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/how-write-alternate-worlds
I really enjoyed this collaborative call-and-response prose piece ‘At the Shoreline’ written by myself and fellow Kinara poets Sarala Estruch and Rushika Wick for the fabulous Poetry Birmingham here
I wrote about Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Covid-19, isolation and young people’s mental health through the idea of the ‘chronotope’ or ‘impossible worlds’ of literature for SYNAPSIS here
A recent exploration of the lyric essay as illness narrative is up on SYNAPSIS here
I looked at the works of artists with lived experience of illness in the context of the medical gaze at SYNAPSIS here
My review of Breast Cancer Inside Out: Bodies, Biographies, Beliefs (Ed. Kimberley Myers) on The Polyphony
I reviewed ‘Arrival at Elsewhere’, a book-length collaborative poem compiled from work written during the first few months of UK lockdown at The Polyphony
I presented my work on Anne Boyer’s ‘The Undying’ at the Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities Conference in the summer of 2021.
I chose a few of my favourite books of magic realism for children over at Sheperd Books. You can read it here
I really enjoyed listing a few of my favourite mythic retellings beyond the Greco-Roman canon for Shepherd books. You can read my recommendations here
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