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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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January Musings by Sue Wallace-Shaddad
Musings January 2025 After some lovely family time over Christmas and New Year, it is good to get back into...
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...