My first public reading

Yesterday saw a landmark event for any author: my first public reading.  I read out the first few pages of The Yellow Moth, which was recently published on the cover of OpenPen Magazine, Issue 11.

Almost everything about the event went wrong: my mother was late, her partner went for a wander and got lost, the roof fell in on the venue an hour before the shindig began, nobody could get through to anyone else about it.  But, by a mix of serendipity and enthusiasm, we all managed to find seats in the trendy cellar of a really cute pancake house.  My mother’s partner resurfaced, a spot was found to park the car, people figured out where we were and I discovered the best gluten-free pancakes in North-East London!

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Open Pen Magazine Publication | ‘The Yellow Moth’ & Excerpt

OP11_FROTNCOVERVery exciting news, everybody: for the first time ever, one of my short stories is going to be published in a proper, grown-up literary journal!  Even better, it’s been selected as the Cover Story!

The Yellow Moth, which is about a small girl having her first existential crisis, will be published in Open Pen Magazine, Issue 11, and will be available in all the best kind of independent bookshops in print.  There will be an event to celebrate the Issue 11 launch and words in general on April 10th from 7pm, where I will be doing a reading with great amounts of nervousness.

A small sneak-peek of The Yellow Moth is available here on the Open Pen website, but if you want more, I’ve posted a few paragraphs below as well.  

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