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Writer as Maker

On making things and putting them into the world If a tree falls and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If a person writes a book and no one reads it, does it exist? For most creatives, you are free to make what you like and then what you have made exists. ContinueContinue reading “Writer as Maker”

Miners

Hello! It has been a long time since I’ve posted here and some changes are happening! I’m self-publishing my YA dystopian novel later this year and am so relieved that it will finally be out in the world. I’ve also started blogging over at Substack. Miners is a newsletter for tired creatives. Check it outContinueContinue reading “Miners”

Faith and Mystery

  Because I am a writer, I believe in magic.  Because I have a faith, I believe in what cannot be explained.  I believe that life is a story, at times hilarious, sad and uncanny, that the strangest things happen all of the time.  For me, living with a Christian faith is about accepting theContinueContinue reading “Faith and Mystery”

Burst; a poem by Elisabeth Pike

Burst The things that I see and touch consume me; the work that I must do, the dinner that I must cook, and the house that must be tidied fill up the space in my mind. And when I close my eyes, all I can see is the bustle of things, like a humming city,ContinueContinue reading “Burst; a poem by Elisabeth Pike”

Why I write about motherhood

I just want to put it out there that I’m not a self-certified expert on parenting by any means.  I run courses on writing motherhood because I write, I always have done; it’s how I process my feelings – my grief, my joys, my disappointments, and it’s how I can convey my wildly fluctuating feelingsContinueContinue reading “Why I write about motherhood”

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Living with Type One – What it looks like

Note: I think there may be quite a bit of type 1 jargon in here. Apologies for that. Also a normal blood sugar (what we’re aiming for) is 4-8. I haven’t written that much about type 1 diabetes on here although I have intended to but two of the poems about Type One diabetes inContinueContinue reading “Living with Type One – What it looks like”

How She Does It: Liz Pike | Studio Mothers: Life & Art

Great to have my work featured on this gorgeous US based blog Studio Mothers>> check it out! How She Does It: Liz Pike | Studio Mothers: Life & Art

Putting Your Work Out There: There You Are, 34 poems about Motherhood

Who are these crazy dreamers who plug away at something, for hour after hour on their own, believing that one day it will come to something?  I am one of them, and although sometimes I feel deluded (!), I know that there is a quiet faith that my writing will see the light of dayContinueContinue reading “Putting Your Work Out There: There You Are, 34 poems about Motherhood”

What is it really all for anyway?

I was day-dreaming today as I made my way along a Shropshire lane on my way to teach creative writing to some excitable children.  What is this really all about I was asking myself, and what am I doing it for?  I was imagining that  I had achieved all the worldly goals: a house, financialContinueContinue reading “What is it really all for anyway?”

Store it up..

A kernel is sometimes all it takes.  A feeling, a word, an image that sums up how we are feeling, a verse from a song.  Store them up, write them down.   In those years of relentless parenting with three under fives, I often had a feeling, a desire to say something which would be snatchedContinueContinue reading “Store it up..”

Shine Like Stars

So much of my life as a writer has been about waiting.  It’s frustrating as a creative outlet in that for a lot of the time, your work has to be validated by someone else for it to appear in print. Even now, there are a few pieces of my work that have been published,ContinueContinue reading “Shine Like Stars”

Letting Go

Sending my novel out to agents feels a curious thing.  I have finished at last.  I breathe a sigh of relief.  I am proud of what I have achieved.  But I also find myself stepping back from it.  It is its own thing, launched into the inboxes of strangers.  I can’t imagine how is perceivedContinueContinue reading “Letting Go”

Uncle John

A very old poem and a kernel for the novel. The smell of the strawberry jam, the decay, the wildness.. The jam thick with whole strawberries  hadn’t seemed so wonderful to me at the time.   Only now, sitting in my room with morning toast do I feel the loss,   as I remember themContinueContinue reading “Uncle John”

Marianne Williamson on being given permission to shine

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child ofContinueContinue reading “Marianne Williamson on being given permission to shine”

Crying in Public Places

This time it is me again, in a room of friends or a room of strangers. At the door of my son’s preschool when he shouts ‘don’t like preschool’ the whole way there, and leaps from the buggy board and runs off down the road, and I hand him over, howling and I have toContinueContinue reading “Crying in Public Places”