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The experience of having Alma Alexander as an editor on ‘River’ was one of the most uplifting I’ve known. She warned me at the outset that she would be completely honest about my writing - and she was. She never failed to point out any flaws, but when she praised something, I ( Read more... )

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Well, we’re halfway through the ‘Place as Person’ series and I don’t know about you guys, but I’m having a blast reading these posts. Everyone has taken a slightly different tack and that’s as it should be - I’m loving every single one of these explorations.

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Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.

Well, we’re halfway through the ‘Place as Person’ series and I don’t know about you guys, but I’m having a blast reading all these posts. Everyone has taken a slightly different tack and that’s as it should be - I’m loving every single one of these explorations.

So far, we’ve ( Read more... )

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I was interested to hear from Helen Lowe on Place as Person, as I’ve found we have more than a few SFF preoccupations in common… to say more would be to spoil! Keep an eye out for Helen’s wonderful ‘Wall of Night’ series.

Place As Person: What Does It Mean When Telling Story?


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Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.

I was interested to hear from Helen Lowe on Place as Person, as I’ve found we have more than a few SFF preoccupations in common… to say more would be to spoil! Keep an eye out for Helen’s wonderful ‘Wall of Night’ series.

Place As Person: What Does It Mean When Telling Story?


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Our next Place as Person contributor is Irene Radford. I hadn’t had the pleasure of discovering Radford’s work before I read her story, ‘The Fall’, in ‘River’. Needless to say, I’m now keen on making up for that lack! (You can see a picture of Latouell Falls below to the left, ( Read more... )

Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.

Our next Place as Person contributor is Irene Radford. I hadn’t had the pleasure of discovering Radford’s work before I read her story, ‘The Fall’, in ‘River’. Needless to say, I’m now keen on making up for that lack! (You can see a picture of Latouell Falls below to the left, ( Read more... )

Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.

Our next Place as Person contributor is Irene Radford. I hadn’t had the pleasure of discovering Radford’s work before I read her story, ‘The Fall’, in ‘River’. Needless to say, I’m now keen on making up for that lack! (You can see a picture of Latouell Falls below to the left, ( Read more... )

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Today’s Place as Person contributer is Tim Jones. Poet, novelist, short story writer, winner of the Janet Frame Memorial award - there doesn’t seem to be anything Tim can’t do. Today, he’s giving Amundsen a run for his imaginative money…

Writing the White Page


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Our next Place as Person writer is Joyce Reynolds-Ward, a fellow ‘River’ author and teacher of Interpersonal Neurobiology, which sounds scarily intelligent to me. Thanks for contributing, Joyce!

Place as Person


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