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welcoming changes to the membership
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Hi Members,
Today’s post is newsy, keeping you up to date with a few changes to the Membership.
I’m launching a new annual subscription tier called The Reader which gives access to every Sunday post in full, access my entire archive of over 200 essays and video podcasts and my audio memoir, Held in Mind.
This new tier is for folks who are here for weekly words and community rather than the live memoir and expressive writing courses I also run as part of The Creator and The Master tiers of my Membership.
It’s for you if you …
love reading memoir and life writing
enjoy delving into the writer’s craft
value being part of conversations on the intersection of creativity and caring
want reflections on perimenopause, or parenting and mental health
It’s a simple subscription that prioritises the reader experience.
At just £39 a year, which is a 40% discount on The Creator tier of the Membership which is the default monthly and annual option, you will have full access to the comments threads on every post and can join the conversation any time.
What do I need to do?
If you are an annual member and want to access Writing for Better Health or The Chain later this year, do nothing. You remain on The Creator tier at your annual price.
If you are a Founding Member, you are now part of The Master tier. You are either enrolled on Writing from the Archives or would like to join Memoir in a Month when it returns in winter 2026. The courses on this tier give you access to me for 1:1 mentoring as well as the group programmes.
If you would like to switch to The Reader tier, head to Manage My Subscription on the desktop version of Substack, cancel your annual or monthly auto-renew and then when your subscription ends, return to this post and click any of The Reader tier buttons in this post.
And finally, a few recent posts you may have missed…
Helen Garner's diaries made a writer of her and have made a re-reader of me
The writer Catherine Lacey once brilliantly described the difficulty of writing about experience you’re still living as “trying to make a bed while you’re still in it,” but as I read Garner’s diaries, I kept thinking that perhaps not every bed needs to be made. Sometimes, we want the unmade beds, with the messy sheets and sprawled out bodies stretching …
Bearing
Friday morning. I’m later in leaving the house than I’d intended for a number of reasons including the adventuring ragdoll, let out for a while after I got back from the bus stop and now nowhere to be seen as is often the way at this time of day.
forgetting the bags for life
The fifth day of the month. It’s not yet light but the four of us have already been drawn into a number of disputes including: who is responsible for the whereabouts of a missing half bag of speciality flour; the compound harms of hairdryer-overuse; the cost per minute of blasting the portable heater and whether the kiwi fruit is mouldy or just bruised.…
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