It was an early Sunday morning. So early, in fact, that not even SE Supermarket was open. I lived in one of those narrow Victorian Woodstock houses on the corner of Salisbury and Roodebloem opposite this place, so you know that means something. Anyway. The household – and the rest of Woodstock, no doubt – wasContinueContinue reading “Gone in 600 Seconds: The Woodstock edition”
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Of gardens and birthdays and jumping…
Before I head into a post about gardening and birthdays, I want to let you know about a short crash course in creative writing I’m facilitating this coming Saturday at the Norval Foundation. On 4 November I’ll be giving a three-hour crash course in creative writing as part of the Foundation’s two-day Art Book Fair.ContinueContinue reading “Of gardens and birthdays and jumping…”
A talk and two extracts
This month I was delighted to talk at two library events about The Fulcrum – the book club talk at Obs Library and the Author Talk at Tokai Library. I loved putting the talk together and thought I’d load it to the site as part of the book information page and then I thought, well, inContinueContinue reading “A talk and two extracts”
The treasure
The ground was soft and the small hole easy to dig. She had chosen a spot under the old Elm tree at the bottom of the garden. It was her fairy tree and she only played with her best friends here. She looked inside the small velveteen bag one last time and fingered the goldContinueContinue reading “The treasure”
You write what you read
Want to know what kind of writer you are or might be? Look to your bookshelf for a hint. At the start of this year I cleared out my bookshelf. I went full Marie-fucking-Kondo on it. If a book didn’t resonate on the level of love, connection (to the story, the physical copy, or theContinueContinue reading “You write what you read”
TANYA MEESON 