- Not as well-known as their female counterparts, the Literary Wives (LW). Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein’s ‘wife’, for example, is nowadays inseparable from Stein’s oeuvre; Stein even titled one of her books ‘The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas’, forever mythologizing
The writer laid bare
The Australia Times Poetry magazine just published an interview with me and two of my poems. You can access these here: http://www.theaustraliatimes.com/magazine/poetry/issue/322/#55…
The literary journal Seizure just published my essay about female ageing and women’s attitudes towards their appearance. It can be read here: http://seizureonline.com/living-the-beauty-paradox/…
A Guest Post from Bambi Smyth about Mixing Creative Nonfiction Genres
I’ve never been very good at keeping things simple. When I write, I have more ideas swirling around my head than kites at a traditional Japanese festival, and invariably they get tangled up.
Similarly, when I came up with the …
A Writer’s Guide to Surviving the Second Child
Dear Readers, I just want to let you know that I wrote this blog post, and intended to send it, before my second son was born. But the baby outsmarted me and turned out before that… Hence both the delay …
My essay which describes my conflicted feelings about motherhood and which initially appeared in the anthology Mothermorphosis (MUP 2015) was recently re-published in Debrief Daily. It’s available to read here: http://www.debriefdaily.com/relationships/being-a-mother/…