I was honoured to be invited to be part of the ‘Live Press’ at the Performance Arcade in Wellington. The Arcade website announces that it “offers new encounters between artists and public” and the 12 Live Press writers were also…
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I was invited to read on a Speculative Fiction panel at Palmerston North Library alongside Kiwi writer, Tim Jones. It was so nerve-wracking to read for the first time here – but the audience were fantastic, and had some brilliant…
searching for isolation Isolation Blog #1 Searching for somewhere isolated involves interacting with many people. Banks, the inland revenue, and many mailing lists want an actual address rather than an imagined one. People who rent out flats or caravans…
A year on from writing LIFE SIZE http://scottishbooktrust.com/blog/writing/2014/09/life-size-by-jess-richards at the Ardtornish Retreat, I have written UNDROWNED, which is a creative response to performing in Sally J Morgan’s ambitious and brave project IN THE HOLLOW OF YOUR HAND. http://theplaygroundnz.com/in-the-hollow-of-your-hand/ The Sunday Times have…
http://snakeropes.jessrichards.com/ This was the original website for Snake Ropes, and a few people have said they miss it, so I’m posting it here. Jay Roberts did a fantastic job on the design for this previous website, and also the current…
While at the stunning Ardtornish Estate working on my third novel, I wrote a memoir piece as the commission for the award. Such personal writing is new to me, but it felt as if the landscape and solitude was drawing…
The thing about being on ‘retreat’ is that it’s perceived as restful. A place where you lie down or dream, away from the world which sent you retreating from it in the first place. A retreat is a pause: the…
Ardtornish Writers Retreat 2014 (Scottish Book Trust) I am so honoured to have been awarded this fantastic opportunity. Can’t wait for June… am packing already. (It’s April.) Just, you know. So I’m ready. So… laptop notebook pen wellies torch foghorn…
Workshy Fop interviewed me and three other authors and has written a really interesting piece. It’s all about the varying lifestyles of writers. I used to have a ‘lifestyle’. I’m not missing it at all. http://workshyfop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-death-of-boozy-lunch.html
I’ve been making some ‘broken bits of time’ clocks. The hands move round, they tick, but they don’t tell anything. We force clocks to tell us the time. It’s all in the numbers. What if clocks could tell us other…