Yes, after working with Swansea Print Workshop for 10 years and only 5 years since I moved from Wales, I have finally signed up for a printmaking course at the local college in Kendal! I’m looking forward to exploring a new artform and to being with other creative people, feeling that energy of a group … Continue reading a different way with ink
Author: sarah jackman
Writing this feels like meeting up with a friend I haven’t seen for a few years and throwing into an evening’s catch-up everything that has happened in the intervening time! It’s been one of those challenging periods, years of one big life challenge after another, of learning to let go in order to make new … Continue reading Catching up and looking forward
Welcome to my blog. A place where I share news on my books and other writerly things including other writing that I do; thoughts on my writing process, the writing community and writing life, and what inspires and refreshes me away from the desk.
Throughout 2015 before I moved from Wales, I worked with Swansea Print Workshop to deliver their ‘15 Years, People and Printmaking Project’ - a project celebrating 15 Years of creativity for this small and amazing organisation. I had the honour and pleasure of editing the beautiful bi-lingual English/Welsh anniversary publication. For more information on the … Continue reading 15 Years, People and Printmaking
A pleasure to be the editor of this special 2014 anniversary publication celebrating the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. It was particularly fitting and an absolute treat to commission an original piece from writer Rachel Trezise, winner of the inaugural Dylan Thomas Literature Prize in 2006. Deialogau, Dylan Thomas, Dialogues, celebrates the project’s … Continue reading Dylan Thomas Dialogues
The form of a novel is something I enjoy and like to take time over – to picture how it will be as a physical object and how the form contributes to the reading experience.
A couple of months ago I took part in an Opinions and Lifestyle Survey for the Office for National Statistics. Prior to this, a letter had arrived in the post saying I had been selected from 63,182,000 “to help shape Britain today and tomorrow.” Enclosed with the letter and explanatory leaflet was a book of … Continue reading the gift of numbers
I love lists. I have lists for shopping, daily and weekly to-do lists, wish lists and of course, a long list of books I want to read! Add a timeline, budgets and goals and the possibilities multiply! Not to mention that lists mean more stationery opportunities: different notebooks for different reasons, colour and fine point … Continue reading creative list-making
One of the most common questions asked of any writer must be where do you get your ideas from? Writing contemporary fiction, it sometimes feels like there is a constant supply from everyday life ready to catch my eye. What can feel more mysterious is what makes any particular idea stick. What snags at the … Continue reading Leaves, Geese and Ideas
So thrilled to have my latest story ‘Leaves and Geese’ published in Honno’s anthology: ‘My Heart on My Sleeve’. Honno are such a great team: passionate about writing and writers! “Stories of love from Wales: 14 women authors write about love, desire, heartbreak, sex, longing and guilt. Happy and sad, funny and fierce, they include … Continue reading OUT NOW! latest short story
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