As my daughter’s wedding and it’s afterglow receed so the writing emerges and the reading too.
On October 25th I’ll be running a RoomtoWrite day workshop with my colleague Wendy Robertson on The Novella – all the details are HERE if you’d like to join us for the day. As well as beginning a new novella – a form I’m really excited about – I’m reading novellas too. So far the prize goes to Edith Wharton’s – Ethan Frome. New to me but how did I miss this? It’s captivating and unputdownable, in my opinion everything a novella should be.
Great fiction, like Edith Wharton’s, touches us and teaches us about ourselves and the world. This is the premise of the Changing Lives Through Literature programme I had the good fortune to visit in Boston USA. It’s inspirational founder Prof. Bob Waxler has a new book out – The Risk of Reading.
It is an important and fascinating book especially for those of us who care about reading. You can find it HERE.
I pre-ordered my copy so I for one will be reading it.
In my newsletter this week – some American literary magazines to submit to and ‘Writing can be Scary.’ If you’d like to receive the newsletter – which is not really news but very much about writing – free every Monday just e mail at – amjoy@hotmail.co.uk and I will put you on my list.
Thanks so much for all your kind words and ongoing support, Avril. Keep wriing! Literature can change lives–that we know.
Lovely Post in every way. wx