THERE SHE GOES

Women writing their wanderings

Hello friends, how are you all this early March day? The first Monday of the month, what a wild thing we are already here!

I am over the moon to share that I have new work in this gorgeous anthology THERE SHE GOES- New Travel by Women- edited by the wonderful Esa Aldegheri, out this week with Saraband. There are such beautiful writers in this anthology, some of my very favourites indeed.

There She Goes brings together seventeen women writers – of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry – in an anthology of travel tales to inspire, encourage and empower women adventuring through the world in different ways and stages of life.

There She Goes celebrates the stories of women getting on with getting from one place to another – the grit, courage and determination of moving through the world with babies, with periods, with grief and loss, with the menopause, with magic and humour, with bodies that are ill or disabled or seen as foreign and Other. These are stories so often shared between women verbally but – despite the drama, excitement and humour they contain – are rarely printed.

This is a book offering a new perspective on what it means to be adventurous. In times where fear and worry seem so prevalent, it is a gift of courage and celebration.

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My essay— SPIDER MOTHER— explores the changes motherhood made to the way I move through the world.

I touch on PND, spiders, the pandemic, the grief of not being a mother, matrescence, and a wild garden in the county I now call home. It was a deeply healing and moving experience, writing this piece.

I’ve included a wee excerpt below, for paid subscribers, and hope if you get a copy of the book you will enjoy the rest.

Brightly,

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