Let's start this post by saying that this is going to be a very short post compared to what I usually write here, and I know that it is a bit of a break from fantasy mapping tradition. So, I have been to a live poetry reading event with Lemn Sissay at the University of Suffolk on the 23rd of March, where at one point, he was reading out some of his four-line poems that he wrote in the Sunday Times bestseller Let the Light Pour In . When I walked out of that session, I thought to myself, "let's write a four-liner about this event that mimics the action in Lemn's poems". So, to try and lighten up everyone's spirit going into the Easter holidays, that's exactly what I am going to do - write a four-liner that takes in as much of the event atmosphere as possible. Here's my take on this. Let the light pour in Let the imagination breathe in Laughter overcomes us And wisers become Tizers. Having written about Lemn Sissay's event in the most creative way ...
Well, hello there, and I hope that we have all have managed to recover from the festivities of the new year. We're back, and this post dives deep into a subject that I strongly believe in from the bottom of my heart - a creative writing workshop on writing about cities with Elena Medel, which took place on the 26th of January 2026 from 10:30am to 3:00pm at the British Library in London. As is customary of each and every blog post of this nature, I shall start by giving some introductions as to who is Elena. Elena Medel is an award-winning Spanish poet and writer, who started writing her first poem, My First Bikini (Mi primer bikini) in 2001, before going on to write a couple more poems over the years (including Chatterton, which won the Loewe Young Poets prize in 2014), and eventually getting around to releasing her first novel, The Wonders ( Las Maravillas) in 2020, which was translated into 15 languages, and released to positive acclaim from a wide range of journals and publicat...