As I have been involved in publishing an independent magazine, Confluence, for the past couple of years, and running live literary events for about 10 years, I have a lot of friends who are writers, and am lucky that a lot of them are also very supportive. Not my cats – my cats hinder the artistic process whenever they can (although they are going to be starring in a short illustrated pamphlet I’m writing/drawing soon!). I am in the process of rearranging my office and building a bigger desk, so that I have room for the growing collection of art materials.ĭefinitely my husband, Barry Fentiman Hall, who is a poet and works with me on most of the literary projects I run through my organisation, Wordsmithery. Juggling paid work of a non-creative type in order to be able to do creative type work (often low or unpaid), and then also have time to write, and newly, to draw, as I’ve recently been relearning to draw in order to write and illustrate stories, with the aim of adapting a play I wrote into a graphic novel. What is the most challenging aspect of your creative process? I read a lot of noir in the last few years for a work in progress, but I’ve recently gone off detective novels, as women seem to get disproportionately horribly murdered in them. Writers that I like now, include Neil Gaiman, Octavia E Butler, Margaret Atwood, Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden books. Also I liked reading about detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Simon Templar. Sci-fi, in particular, Ray Bradbury, was a favourite. All I wanted for Christmas and birthdays was books. After that they gave me an adult ticket, so I could take more books out. I got told off by the librarians, aged about 10, because I returned the 4 books I’d taken out in the morning, that same afternoon. I bombed through the usual children’s fiction in our local library and started reading adult stuff. I’d read cornflakes packets whilst I was eating breakfast. Her piece “Matryoshka’ can be found in EPOCH Issue 02: Aftermath, available to purchase here. Stories and CNF widely published including in The Blue Nib, The Medusa Project, Dark London vol 1, Emerging Worlds, Litro.
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