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Reflecting on the Launch of The Drifted Stream with Sue Wallace-Shaddad
The Drifted Stream is an anthology created over the last two years as a tribute to Charles Causley, edited by...
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Reflecting on the Launch of The Drifted Stream with Sue Wallace-Shaddad
The Drifted Stream is an anthology created over the last two years as a tribute to Charles Causley, edited by...
October Musings by Sue Wallace-Shaddad
There has been a slight hiatus in blogging over the summer but autumn brings my blog again (now once a...
Young Person’s Competition: I have lived with mermaids by Mathias Adler
Sing to me O Muse, a real one. I wait expectantly by the bedside. Then: The sirens whisper at the...
Young Person’s Competition: Within the greats by Bea Jopling
Challenging confederacy, Or questioning theocracy, Or standing to the face of their awful “democracy.” Their leatherback notebooks cannot constrain,...
Young Person’s Competition: Siren by Violet Wan
‘You could hear the sea from here. You might imagine, in the winter, it would creep up on to those...
Young Person’s Competition: The Purple Beach by Mia Atkinson
a violet sky like a blanket, ...
Young Person’s Competition: My Mother’s Spell by Bernadette Lee
Like a spell, she breathes life into me. Seven, legs basking in the summer glow You’re in the finally...
Young Person’s Competition: Redhead by Faith Lydall
I am a redhead, on the sixth turn of the globe you said I set a curse upon the world,...
Young Person’s Competition: Where the Magic Lives by Macy Sheffield
Sometimes it makes me wonder Where magic goes for a wander Is it as simple as fairies in the sand?...
Young Person’s Competition: The Moon by Maria Guriteanu
The Moon light shines so bright, While is putting us, safe to sleep tonight. It’s singing a tune, While...
Young Person’s Competition: A Song of Magic by Maya Pal
Sing me a song of magic At twilight , How the stars shine! Echoes of your dreams and mine. Broken...
Inspired by a Cumbrian Folktale by Alex Toms
You ask me what I’ve learnt of love. Let me tell you a story in reply: Once there was a...