Welcome to my free monthly Highly Irregular writing newsletter - and free audio serialisation of my new book, from Dec 31st 2025! Full/paid subscribers also receive an Unbox Your Words post each month, with writing provocations/prompts & exercises.
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August break - and all Unbox Your Words writing prompt posts unlocked!
Hi everyone,
a quick note before I go off on my Substack break for August to let you know that not only have I paused all the paid subscriptions, I have also (I hope!) removed the paywalls from all the Unbox Your Words writing prompt/exerc...
It's Time Audio #42 - July 23rd (final instalment)
“I had forgotten about how calm I felt learning about long-term projects, ones that stretch into the future, ones that their initiators have to trust other people to continue, to finish.”
Here is the 42nd and final audio instalment of me r...
It's Time Audio #41 - July 20th
“You have just turned forty-nine, you are in your fiftieth year, and you are, perhaps also for the first time, feeling completely comfortable inside your skin....”
Here is the 41st audio instalment of me reading my new book, It’s Time: A C...
It's Time Audio #40 - July 17th
“I am wandering through Paris, on my birthday, with a friend...”
Here is the 40th audio instalment of me reading my new book, It’s Time: A Chronomemoir: Part 40: July 17th 2019. (See below for links to previous instalments.)
And since it’...
Unbox Your Words #22 July 2026
A reminder that if you’d like to unlock the full version of this post - and all the Unbox Your Words posts, including the audio version and the zoom workshop discount codes - but the paid option of £3.50/month would be a struggle, you can u...
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Queer writer of odd things: stories/poems/hybrids/novels. Books: Nine Arches, Broken Sleep, Guillemot Press. From Sep '24 I'm running Unbox Your Words - Give Yourself Permission to Play, monthly writing provocations/prompts/exercises. \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08
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