Archive - Anna’s Newsletter

Come to a a Writing Retreat in May!

Just a little extra as I now have writing retreat details. Hope you can come - and there will be an online counterpart in June. 22nd May in Bradford on…

Apr 24, 2022

Updates, new books, teaching and getting The Alchemy into the world

Hello everyone! So first, here is the recently revealed cover of my next book, my fifth and second book of stories: Ravished. If you were to have a look…

Apr 23, 2022 •

March 2022

Introducing The Alchemy

Ta da. Today, Unbound and I launched The Alchemy. A super-brief newsletter this time because I need your company and support on a new adventure. Here it…

Mar 29, 2022 •

February 2022

About being a writer...

I was asked earlier for the single most valuable piece of advice I’d received about being a writer - a writer of books, she meant. Really, of novels. I…

Feb 23, 2022 •

A simple writing kit...

A simple post: let me share my resources for you. Or rather, let me share what I have and use. A kit, if you will. A room of my own. No. A desk in my…

Feb 9, 2022 •

January 2022

On kids; not some: all

There is so much to say, on Saturday the 29th of January, about what has happened around the most recent Kate Clanchy book - which I read carefully and…

Jan 29, 2022 •

Saving Lucia - an extra and very short newsletter for #Ulysses100

In April of 2020, just as lockdowns began, my third novel, Saving Lucia, was published. I thank you hugely for taking it to your heart and I wanted to…

Jan 19, 2022 •

Book News from Bookworm

Zebras, short stories, ghosts in a Wiltshire village, a memoir and much more

Jan 18, 2022 •

July 2021

On Telling your True Story. And if they won't listen? Pass it on so someone else is encouraged to tell theirs

On Trauma; on Telling: For my husband

Jul 25, 2021 •

Writing Updates from Anna

It's all going on and it's all been going on

Jul 24, 2021 •

May 2021

A new column in The Bookseller, an interview and all kinds of revels

A brief little number this week. First, an interview I loved doing with 3AM magazine …

May 29, 2021 •

Good news, compendium of failure and something involving pigeons (better read on)

Good morning -BST - my writing bravehearts. Have a picture I took recently; these stepping stones are featured in the new novel I have been editing…

May 13, 2021 •

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