TALL TALES: WITH POPPY NWOSU. - Tall Tales with Poppy Nwosu

TALL TALES NEWSLETTER: November 2019

1/12/2019

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WORDS: Patrick Wolf

25/11/2019

Augustine.
Patrick Wolf.

As the bell tower blocks the summer light
All the seeds in our garden fight
To break and blossom, all to be adored

TALL TALES NEWSLETTER: October 2019

1/11/2019

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My 2019 trip to Varuna The Writer's House

21/10/2019

One of the most incredible things that happened to me in 2019, was being awarded the Writers SA residency at Varuna the Writer's House.

I went to Varuna (in the Blue Mountains) for a week and I have never been so productive in my entire life!

I worked on a new project and wrote 50,000 words.
I am so excited about the (still very rough) manuscript, and so grateful for my time at Varuna. I never get time like that. Days of uninterrupted writing time.
I made the most of it.

I cannot wait to hopefully go back again!

Why do I write YA?

20/10/2019

Well because I love YA (young adult fiction).
Obviously.

But to dig a little deeper than that, ...... .Sometimes I think about why I love YA literature so much.
I think about why I love it apart from the obvious (so many genres within YA, you can read an endless array of extraordinarily diverse stories, from gritty contemporary to romance to far out fantasy or science fiction).

I think about this often.
Why do I love YA?

WORDS: by City Girl

25/9/2019

Anything Like Her
City Girl

And I wish
that I was anything like her.

BOOK MUSING: The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare

11/9/2019

So today I’m thinking about Cassandra Clare as an author, and specifically about her Dark Artifices series.

And I’ve dribbled down some of those thoughts here.
On my blog.

Because that’s what I do!

WORDS: The Bronze Medal

3/9/2019

Tunnel
The Bronze Medal

Take me inside my head is spinning
you ripped my shirt and spilled my tea
your freshly cleaned bedroom linens,
you picked up the pile and threw em right at me
you wanted to know...

I don't think you're feeling rested.

A Writing Festival Speech: My road to publication!

30/8/2019

Being an author means doing a lot of interesting and exciting things you have never done before.
A big one for me in 2019 was being asked to do the opening 20 minute speech for the 2019 Salisbury Writers Festival.

It felt like a particularly big deal, considering how many times I have attended the festival as part of the audience. It is a place where I have learnt so much about being a writer, and to be asked to speak was pretty incredible! :)

I decided to provide a transcription of my speech here, which is about my long and difficult road to publication and the books I loved growing up.
I hope you enjoy reading it! :)

MESSENGER ARTICLE!!

1/8/2019

So .... this was a pretty unusual one for me! Last week I had a photographer come round to my house and take a million pictures of me while I posed on the couch with my book!

I've definitely never had that experience before!

It is definitely exciting seeing my book in the local paper! :) Even our cat Bro is excited!