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Welcome to the articles page. Here you’ll find a collection of pieces covering writing projects, the creative process, and practical tips to support and hopefully inspire your own writing.

I'm of Cypriot heritage but that doesn't mean I always get things right when I write about the island. Writing East Midlands invited me to write an article about the writer as insider and outsider.

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You want to write a memoir but don't know how to start. How to do it? What to include? Take heart - you're the leading expert in the subject of your life. Here's an article about starting out.

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You’ve done the hard work. Written about people and places and cars and music and house-moves and jobs and relationships. You’ve edited the fragments. So, what’s the next step? Structure. Read about it here...

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An article in Writers on Location about writing, where inspiration comes from and my tendency to island hop from the UK to Cyprus and back again. With a picture of my beloved island writer friends Paula, Zoe and Erini.

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All writers strive to make their writing authentic. To make their dialogue, characters and situations real to the reader, believable. Memoir is real (while acknowledging that memory is fallible) so hard work done, right? Well, not quite. Making your writing authentic, bringing it to life, still needs close attention and effort.

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How a eureka moment turned into a Christmas gift for my father, a community writing project and a life writing guide, The Accidental Memoir, published by Harper Collins.

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It's not every day that your little book becomes the subject of an academic paper. I'm forever grateful to Professor Petra Tournay-Theodotou for taking the time to mull over the themes of my first book Eat, Drink and be Married.

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Honoured to receive a mention as one of Nottingham's women of words. A city with a great literary legacy.

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An interview with the late, great bard of Brixton, Alex Wheatle. Part of series of interviews undertaken during my time as writer in residence at NTU's Postcolonial Studies Centre (apologies for the picture quality!).

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