Blog 112 – Seeing the Bigger Picture www.thebiggerpicturefilm.com I was waiting for my online grocery delivery last week. It was late. So, when at a loose end what do you do? You Google yourself. Well, I did. Therein can lie a story. I wondered why my name was listed under British Film Institute/Oscar nomination/BAFTA award […]
Seeing the Bigger Picture …
26/05/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Summer is Trying to Squeeze Through
14/05/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 111 – Summer is Trying to Squeeze Through Creative Ink for Writers’ summer classes will be ending next week. (Summer keeps trying to squeeze through, doesn’t it?) The autumn term – ‘Get Inspired’/Tuesdays and ‘Get that Book Out of You’/Thursdays at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield – 10. 00 am until midday begins Tuesday 15th […]
Lunar Poetry
26/04/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 110 – Lunar Poetry You can buy edition 6 which features my poem ‘Smoke Screen’ on www.lunarpoetry.co.uk Lovely group at Missenden Abbey yesterday for ‘Unlocking Your Creative Unconscious’. My readings from my poetry collection ‘God and Lipstick’ still available online Marlow FM 97.5/Listen Again/Mid-Morning Matters/Friday 17th April 10.00 am until 11.00 am until Friday […]
‘God and Lipstick’
19/04/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘God and Lipstick’ – Blog 109 I’m reading from my Creative Writing Masters’ Poetry Dissertation: ‘God and Lipstick’ on Marlow FM 97.5. The readings and interview by the inimitable former Creative Inker and radio presenter Dermot Fitzpatrick is available until Friday 8th May. Google Marlow FM. Hit on ‘Listen Again’ and then ‘Mid-Morning Matters’: Friday […]
Literary Representation Opportunity and Deception …
28/03/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 108 – Literary Representation Opportunity and Deception … Creative Ink for Writers’ summer term for Tuesdays: Get Inspired and Thursdays: Get that Book out of You at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield is now fully subscribed. However you may be interested in a Day Workshop I am teaching in London on Sunday 14th June entitled […]
Thinking of You, Hayley …
15/03/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Thinking of You, Hayley – Blog 107 – by Ms Paige Turner Bread Pudding Days On soggy days when the rain spits my mother’s house is filled with the warmth of cinnamon sticks, rich dried fruit and softly sifted sugar. She folds and wraps our words: – the bargain cost of my orange gloves – […]
Happy Valentine, Husband …
14/02/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 106 – Happy Valentine, Husband … Bored Husband ‘Your husband has just called to say you can buy anything in this shop,’ the plaque reads. But my husband stares out to sea; examines the mainsails of catamarans whilst I examine the ‘Just Cruisin’’ swimwear. We know everything in life carries a price tag. Amongst […]
Normal Communications …
06/02/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
were suspended for the last three weeks due to – was it the router, or was it the laptop battery or was it the land line or was it a cable being stolen in High Wycombe? Well, it was hell but back to normal communications now. Summer Term – Creative Ink – Tuesdays/Get Inspired/ 2 […]
White Rhino in Winter
11/01/2015 // by Jan Moran Neil
Blog 104 – White Rhino in Winter by Ms Paige Turner The wonderful moments I have experienced on safari come to mind and so did this poem which I wrote in 1998 and was first published in The World Wide Writers anthology 1998 and then in Gill Hartley’s excellent ‘Aspects of Loss’ – A Companion […]
Lennon’s Corsets
29/12/2014 // by Jan Moran Neil
Lennon’s Corsets – Blog 103 – by Ms Paige Turner Just as the new 2015 approaches I had two lovely emails. The first was from Dinah Latham who has just published her autobiography about her experiences as a district nurse and midwife in ‘Walking Forward, Looking Back’ with Troubador. Just before Christmas she did a […]