In honour of the 50-day-to-go mark for our Letting Go Roundtable & Anthology Launch , we’re sharing this article from Sukhema, our Second Letting Go Online Writer-in-Residence (OWRs). Here, Sukhema invites you to approach both your writing and the practice of letting go in the company of a trusted peer. In our workshops, we’ve seen how this transforms a difficult … Continue reading Sukhema – Letting Go Takes Courage | Letting Go
In honour of the 50-day-to-go mark for our Letting Go Roundtable & Anthology Launch, we’re sharing this article from Sukhema, our Second Letting Go Online Writer-in-Residence (OWRs). Sukhema’s reflections on “The older I get, the more I need to…” perfectly set the stage for the themes of release and renewal we will explore at the Letting Go Roundtable & Anthology … Continue reading Sukhema – The Older I get the more I need to . . . | Letting Go
Today, Tuesday, 5th May 26 marks 50 Days until our Letting Go Round Table & Anthology Launch event! Just last week, we wrapped up our final Letting Go writing workshop with the wonderful Sandra Ireland. It was a powerful closing chapter to our workshop series and the beautiful energy behind this project is now reaching … Continue reading 50 Days Until Letting Go Go Round Table & Anthology Launch event!
Moira Forsyth is our first Letting Go Online Writer-in-Residence (OWRs) and in her article The Habit of Writing, Moira explores the universal writer’s dilemma of finding the “perfect time” to write amid the logistics of living. Moria’s solution lies in the ‘spaces between’ and it is a practice you can start today. “I discovered that the pages … Continue reading Moira Forsyth – The Habit of Writing | Letting Go
This is the fourth and final part of The Crumbly Chronicles by Robin Lloyd-Jones (1934-2024). 4.1 An Hotel in Drumnadrochit4.2 Autumn in Glen Affric ATTIC ARCHIVESD. The Ascent of Ben GlasF. My Friend Death
This is the third part of The Crumbly Chronicles by Robin Lloyd-Jones (1934-2024). 3. Summer 2021 (continued)3.2 On the Shore3.3 Long Weekend in Wester Ross Part 1: The Best Part of a Goodish Bit Part 2: Never Give Up Part 3: The Art of Losing Isn’t Hard to Master Part 4: The Gastronauts3.4 A Jolly … Continue reading The Crumbly Chronicles (Part 3)
This is the second part of The Crumbly Chronicles by Robin Lloyd-Jones (1934-2024). 2. Spring 20212.1 Another Fine Mess2.2 Two Men on a Bummel2.3 Give and Take 3. Summer 20213.1 In Which We Go PromenadingInterlude in the Rain Attic Archive A (2020): The Triple AArchive G: Benches on the Helensburgh Promenade
This is the first part of The Crumbly Chronicles by Robin Lloyd-Jones (1934-2024). IntroductionPart 1: Winter 2020-211.1 Open Gates and Green Bananas1.2 Miracles Shining1.3 The Green KettleAttic Archive: Stroke
When he died last year, Autumn Voices’ founder Robin Lloyd-Jones left a memoir of ageing, The Crumbly Chronicles, describing walks he made with his old friend Archie when both were into their eighties. Over the next few months we’ll be publishing The Crumbly Chronicles in installments. Each part will appear here on the AV blog, … Continue reading The Crumbly Chronicles by Robin Lloyd-Jones
Our project with the Pathhead Choir has now come to an end. ‘Here We Are!’ saw Autumn Voices working with songwriter, workshop tutor and choir leader, Sophie Bancroft. Sophie guided a group of Pathhead community members aged 60+ to write original songs for The Pathhead Choir to perform. These songs were arranged and notated for the choir by … Continue reading Here We Are: The Pathhead Choir Project
Joanne Durham lives on the Atlantic coast of the US, with the ocean as her backyard and muse. She loved, drafted, and taught poetry all her life, but only began seriously writing in 2018, and has enjoyed seeing her poems published in different parts of the world, including Dodging the Rain (Ireland), Love in the … Continue reading To Drink from a Wider Bowl
Love’s Floreloquence by Wendy Ann Webb is published by Inherit the Earth Publications and available now from Amazon. The poems were written over many years, some lighthearted, others very serious issues, to provide poems of love that lasts a lifetime. There’s something for all ages and stages of love and the accompanying heartache of real … Continue reading Love’s Floreloquence
As part of Autumn Voices’ Third Age Plus Pioneers project, singer songwriter Chiara Berardelli and multi disciplinary cabaret artist Miss Annabel Sings worked together on a very special project with Alf Barnett, a 93 year-old man (and Annabel’s dad) living in Wembley, whose long held dream was to write songs and perform. Listen to Alf’s songs, ‘Roses’ and ‘Memories’. … Continue reading Two new songs by Alf Barnett
Last week, Sheila Templeton introduced us to the idea of getting started writing in Scots. This week, she tells us about her early experiences of writing and how she got started writing poetry in Scots, using the words that were familiar to her from her native Aberdeenshire. Sheila’s been kind enough to share some of … Continue reading Writing in Scots: the honest voice
There’s just one week left to enter the Autumn Voices poetry competition! If you’re desperate to submit an entry but feeling a bit stuck with your writing, we’ve got the perfect blog to get your poetry juices flowing. Kay Ritchie, one of the highly commended poets featured in the recent Living Our Dying competition, tells … Continue reading Poetic Inspiration
