Our next theme: INHERITANCE

What are the things that have been given to you? Our first theme of 2022 will be INHERITANCE. Submissions close Friday 21st January. Read More

Ep 13: Nature Writing Special

To celebrate publication of Tools for Surviving a Storm, we discuss nature, writing and women, and chat with author of the collection Nadia Henderson. Read More

Fear and Change: Writing About the Human and Natural Worlds

By Nadia Henderson

Nadia Henderson didn’t set out to write about climate change with Tools for Surviving a Storm, but a collection about nature would feel incomplete without it. Read More

One Breath

By Jess Costello

Explore the grounding power of breath and the many tiny miracles that exist in existing. Read More

Airplane Mode

By Eimhear O’Toole

On the healing powers of romantic comedies. Read More

Our Time Entangled

By Anna Kerr

An imagining of idealised love – safe, soft and sun-kissed. Read More

In Darkness

By Dominique Gracia

Step onto Medusa's island with Dominique Gracia's retelling, in which her island refuge itself turns men to stone. Read More

My Therapist Asks Me How My Week’s Been

By Scarlett Ward

Scarlett Ward's poem explores the necessity of retreating, specifically as a woman. TW: assault Read More

Everything We Lost

By Naomi Wood

Naomi Wood reflects on all the ways we are encouraged to retreat, and how we persist, regardless. Read More

Damsel in Distress: I don’t know how to create a story

By Kerry Ryan

'There are no original stories and only a finite number of plots.' In her final column, our creative writing agony aunt Kerry Ryan gives advice for when you can't seem to find a storyline. Read More