Incomplete Freedoms
Freedom Day, Joburg 27th April 2024 I am in South Africa for the 30-year anniversary of the first democratic elections which were held on...
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Lynnda Wardle
May 22, 20232 min read
Writing the Asylum - an exploration of the Gartnavel Asylum Archive
“Two months after my partner Billy dies, I am offered his place on the Writing the Asylum project. I am raw, grief-stricken (what a word,...
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Lynnda Wardle
Apr 5, 20231 min read
presence of absence (off-page visual poetry exhibition March 16th-120th 2023)
In March this year I exhibited one of the grief pieces I have been exploring as part of the off-page visual poetry collective, alongside...
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Lynnda Wardle
Feb 17, 20231 min read
On your 70th Birthday
What will we do today? A coffee with an iced bun at the Atrium? Then, a walk along the Cart full and flowing fast snowdrops relentlessly...
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Lynnda Wardle
Jul 23, 20221 min read
The Adoption Campaign
Having completed my memoir, Her Blue Eye, Mine, I have been sending sections off to magazines and have had good success in getting short...
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Lynnda Wardle
Aug 5, 20212 min read
bench // marks
In February 2021, locked-down and frustrated, I undertook a daily walk to photograph and write about one fixed place, a bench facing onto...
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Lynnda
May 4, 20191 min read
The Mundane Goes Weird
A review of Vicky Grut's short story collection 'Live Show: Drink Included' (Holland Park Press, 2018) Published in Glasgow Review of...
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Lynnda Wardle
Jan 19, 20193 min read
Reads of 2018
First published in Glasgow Review of Books The best reading experiences are journeys; books that move you from one place to another,...
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Lynnda Wardle
Jul 26, 20181 min read
No Honourable Goddamn Stereotypes
My review on Glasgow Review of Books of Leo Zeilig's rich and absorbing novel that moves between London and Zimbabwe. Published by Hope...
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Lynnda
Nov 6, 20171 min read
Writer's Kitchen - Faith & Food
November 11th, 4 pm - 6: 30 pm, Soul Food Sisters Cafe, 202 Gallowgate, Glasgow, G1 5DS Join us in our our final workshop in the Writer's...
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Lynnda Wardle
Oct 26, 20171 min read
The Writer's Kitchen Feast and Harvest
This month we will be sharing stories and wonderful, exploring Feast & Harvest - those brimming seasonal gluts and the plethora of...
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Lynnda Wardle
Oct 14, 20171 min read
Writing your Life: Autumn Memoir Workshops
Its that time of year again! As the seasons change, it provides a perfect opportunity to reflect and explore our memory and write from...
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Lynnda Wardle
Sep 10, 20171 min read
The Writer's Kitchen - Cooking up Stories about Food & Life - sweets!
Sept 30th, Soul Food Sisters, 202 Gallowgate, Glasgow, G1 5DS The latest in a series of workshops exploring our wonderfully complex...
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Lynnda Wardle
Aug 31, 20172 min read
AYOW (A Year of Writing)
In February 2016, I decided that the way to continue writing, to be motivated and to not give up when things got tough, was to find a...
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Lynnda Wardle
Jul 29, 20171 min read
The Writer's Kitchen
I'm really excited to be collaborating with the talented chef, Kawther Luay from Ruzbowl on a new series of creative writing workshops...
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Lynnda Wardle
Jul 26, 20171 min read
African Hustle
I am delighted that my story 'States of Emergency' (Set in Joburg during the 80s) is published in the latest New Orleans Review -...
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Lynnda Wardle
Sep 11, 20161 min read
You have struck women!
Delighted that this short piece about National Women's Day in South Africa has been published by the Dangerous Women Project See here for...
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Lynnda Wardle
Aug 17, 20161 min read
Memories into Memoir - Writing Workshop
Last year my writing friend June and I hosted a memoir writing workshop. We had a great day sharing stories. There was an intensity to...
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Lynnda Wardle
Jul 10, 20161 min read
Revisiting Riviersonderend
When I was around 12 or 13 I travelled with my father back to his birthplace, a farm in Riviersonderend in the North Cape (translated...
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Lynnda Wardle
Oct 26, 20151 min read
Life Writing Workshop
Life Writing Workshop Saturday 28th November.10am-4pm. ‘The Practice’ 17 Park Circus Place, G3 6AH Last month I attended the Memoir...
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