
Writer and editor Hannah Ray shares regular posts on storytelling, writing, motherhood, and the internet.
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“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Hello friends!
In one month I’ll be running a new workshop...
“I’m trying, in my early thirties, to unlearn some of the gendered conditioning that profoundly coloured my earlier adulthood”—Helen Charman
It’s interesting to me as both a writer and a reader that when we find a really good book, one w...
Friends!
I last wrote my last Close of Play letter to you around the Gaelic spring marker, and this weekend passed May Day (and locally May Horns) to celebrate the end of winter and oncoming of summer. I never really intended to track the...
Welcome to the fifth edition of On the Clock: a series documenting a day in the lives of working creative women
Today is publication day for Mother, Inc.! Let me share that with you all, my fearless Substack tribe: Happy publication day fr...
There’s just two more days left to buy my pound project book, Mother, Inc. Two more days and then that’s it, poof! It’s gone!
buy the book
I was bowled over by the response from beta (first) readers. I also reached out to a few writers I...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writer, editor, and journalist, based in west Cornwall, UK. (she/her) Mother, Inc. is published by The Pound Project (April 2026). Helping people Tell Their Stories.
Independent publisher
writer of books, walker of bogs, mother of child and cats
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