writer – thinker – speaker
The date on the warrant isn’t a mistake. It was from 1997 but was reissued when the system went computerised between 1999 and 2003. The crime I was arrested for had happened back in 1996 and I’d received a sentence of fifteen months’ weekend detention. I rocked along to five months’ worth when my addiction got out of control.
Read More 1997 – One Star Caravan Park – an excerpt from S&LI remember standing in a dungeon with a slave grovelling near my feet. His shoulders were hunched down and his face took on a look, half worship, half terror, that I remember seeing many times on my stepfather’s face.
Read More Sonja’s Look – excerpt from S+LThis is an excerpt from Snakes and Ladders. Book is currently in development with Affirm Press. Follow Angela J Williams on Facebook for more excerpts and news on publication. 44 – Emus Book Raid On Tuesday morning, forty-four days in, the screws are late coming to unlock us. As the time for people to start reporting for […]
Read More Emus Book Raid – excerptThis is an excerpt from Snakes and Ladders. Book is currently in development with Affirm Press. Follow Angela J Williams on Facebook for more excerpts and news on publication. Now / then – Characters You probably want to know about the person getting arrested, so let’s take a minute out with the here and now me to […]
Read More Now/then – characters – Excerpt(Yes, roller derby peeps, perfect timing for TGSS. Non-derby peeps, forgive my draft. Links and pics soon.) Twenty-four hours ago I would have scrolled past this topic, however just yesterday I had some very relevant realisations. This one comes with a content warning re: invasive psychiatry Context: I am 41 years old, have complex PTSD […]
Read More Draft: ECT Brain thinks about my relationship with ‘exercise’Writing memoir is an intensive process of self-examination, conducted for the most part in solitude. So winning the Affirm Press Mentorship, which included living with two editors for five days, was both exhilarating and terrifying. For weeks leading up to the residency I’ve been asking the same rhetorical questions: How do you live with the […]
Read More Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Friday morningRead me on wifi, I have many pictures. Yesterday the words were hard so I took the camera out into the gardens. After much thinking about how the parts combine to tell the whole, I came back inside and kicked many goals.
Read More Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Thursday morningFuckballs.
You know how writing about yourself can be hard work? And how overthinking everything can lead to either tangled knots or brilliant insight?
Well, yeah. That just happened.
Read More Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Wednesday morning