The Reader
a new, simple subscription that prioritises you - the reader - for £39 a year
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Asking “What Now?” as we rattle roughshod over the peaks and troughs of midlife.
Facilitating your therapeutic journaling + memoir-writing journey in joyous community.
Hi friends,
Today I’m launching a new annual subscription tier for those of you who want to read 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 subscription is for you if you 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 Mastery tiers of my Membership.
It’s for you if you love…
reading memoir and life writing
delving into the writer’s craft
being part of conversations on the intersection of creativity and caring
value reflections on perimenopause, or parenting and mental health in the climate emergency
It’s a simple subscription that prioritises you, the reader.
For £39 a year, which is a 40% discount on the Creator tier Membership, you join a welcoming community of paid subscribers. You will have full access to the comments threads on every post and can join the conversation any time.
What you’ve missed…
A few recent paywalled posts that you might have missed as a free subscriber (paywall down for this weekend only):
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.…
Chat to me
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