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This month’s Dystopian Book Club selection is Sherri Tepper’s 1988 post-apocalyptic novel The Gate to Women’s Country.

After a bumpy summer, I started settling things down in September.

Today is the second Sweating Blood book club at In a Land gallery.

I’m hosting a workshop on microfiction at In A Land gallery on November 1st.

On Saturday, In a Land are holding the first session of their book club, Sweating Blood.

August started in the ruins of July and never really recovered from that.

I used to be scared about climate change; but then I read Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario.

After a lovely June, July felt like pissing into the wind and I’m glad it’s done.

I spent much of June on holiday, my longest break in years, visiting Jake and Scarlett in Wales.

Back in 2010, I wrote a blog post, Thinking about Time-Travel, prompted by a question raised on Twitter – ‘What advice would you give to your sixteen year-old Self?’

May was challenging.

When I was young, I wanted nothing more than to one day publish a novel.

On Thursday 5th March, I went to the Tate and saw Tracey Emin’s bed, a piece of art I last saw in the 90s.

Since 2019, I’ve been working on a series of stories set along the South Downs Way.

Whole sections of bookstores are dedicated to becoming successful.

The Doc Web is a now-lost piece that survives in the Internet Archive, written by Elan Kiderman Ullendorff, about how any tool can be transformed into something to write with.