The Christmas newsletter is a seasonal writing prompt from our recent Dean Writers Circle workshop. This year had to be…
An extract from The Herbalist’s Daughters, the standalone sequel to River Witch. Read about both books here. A familiar elm…
The longest sentence you can where every word starts with the same letter. The last of the writing prompts from…
Written on the fly as the words highlighted in bold caps were read out every ten seconds. A lot of…
Today’s short extract is from The Herbalist’s Daughters – read more about that here The dining room is empty at…
You don’t mind do you is a bit of nonsense in response to a prompt from a creative writing workshop.…
SecureYou called but she wasn’t there. Alice made sure of that. She’d heard whispers that if they had your telephone…
It had been years, perhaps shifting into decades, since John and Marcie had treated themselves. Always excuses, Marcie remembered. No…
The night is dark as the inside of a whale’s belly is a writing prompt taken from my 2023 short…
Jack keeps swimming is a writing prompt taken from my 2023 short story collection Who can believe in witches? They…