My life has always been very much interwoven with what I post here on Wyrd Words & Effigies, and it's going to become even more so as my belly swells and my little shadow becomes a bigger shadow in my womb. I wrote a poem about my ultrasound the other day. I find it easier… Continue reading There Will Be Poetry : Pinecone
I always need more poetry in my life. Always. I do read poetry online, and I'm immensly grateful for poetry online. But it can't give me that same strong sense of deep satisfaction that holding a book and reading from it does. It used to be easier to indulge my curiosity when there was that… Continue reading 6 Books Of Deep, Dark Poetry That I Need
I am reading a lot of short stories right now...but the majority I'm abandoning half-way through because they're not satisfying me enough. Nowhere near in fact. And it's really bloody disappointing. A good, strong, memorable (ideally terrifying) short story can be as nourishing as a hot meal after a hard day. Dissatisfied with my reading… Continue reading Writing In The Dark : 3 Prompts For Short Stories
Folks, please make an old woman happy and submit art work or writing OR both for the relaunch issue of Wyrd Words And Effigies magazine!!! You have 7 days left to submit. I want to build this up to be the premier dark arts and literary mag out there...
If you're interested in appearing in Issue 2 of Wyrd Words & Effigies Magazine (the first issue can be found here) please don't wait to long to submit your art or creative writing, as the deadline closes on the 15th of September. If you need more information, creep on over to the submissions page. If… Continue reading 15 Days Left To Submit To The Magazine
It's been hard and heavy the past couple of months. Time - of which I used to have an abundance of - to create is limited, and I've been suffering. When I don't blog, it feels like something integral to my well-being has been cut out of my life. It doesn't feel as though my… Continue reading New Beginnings Aren’t Easy, But Hell, They’re Necessary
Okay, so while Grimoire isn't necessarily a blog per se, I want to include it here anyway because it's one of the best things I've seen all week and it deserves to be furiously blogged about. I stumbled across it entirely by accident, like with most things of this ilk. It was another occasion where… Continue reading Blogging In The Dark : Grimoire
An exciting announcement! I will be collaborating once again with Nordland Publishing to unleash a new anthology into the world. At Wyrd Words And Effigies we celebrate the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen. Now the time has come to pay tribute to the night and its secrets. Darklore, The Witching Hour, is… Continue reading Wyrd Words & Effigies Collaborates With Nordland Publishing
The time has come…my latest poetry collection In The Hours Of Darkness is now available to purchase at Amazon.com! You can find it here. It will be coming to Amazon.co.uk really soon. If you would like to save a little bit of money, you can also download it directly from Etsy. If you’re a long-term… Continue reading In The Hours Of Darkness On Amazon.com
I will still love you when the last bird falls from the sky. When the last bone explodes into a cloud of dust. When the last tree is incinerated from the inside out. I will still love you when the earth as we know it is finished.
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 