Singing, inspiring talks, poems, reflections, chats, community, tea and cake – that’s Sunday Assembly! We continue the ‘writing’ theme this month: community member Mark Thompson will tell us about his ‘adventures in fiction’. Mark has so far published the first two books in his Take Umbrage series, (tragi)comedy novels which recreate the spirit of 1986 and 1996 in the commuter town of Umbrage, England.…
Read MoreMost of us have a version of the year that broke us. The one where we coped and coped and coped…until we couldn’t. Jools Drybrough knows hers well – she also knows what brought her back. Spoiler: it wasn’t running, or therapy, or a life overhaul… What rebuilt her wasn’t willpower or wellness, it was writing. Raw, unedited, nobody-else-needs-to-see-this writing. This is…
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