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Show Me the Elf (Short Prose)
Show Me the Elf Short Prose “Twist me and turn me and show me the elf, I looked in the water and there saw…” ~ Brownie Ceremonial Rhyme *...


Wild Blackberries (15 minute free-write)
Wild Blackberries Fifteen minute free-write I know that now will be the past in a mere moment: a truth that dangles heavily overhead with...


Isobel Flynn (30-min free-write)
Isobel Flynn 30-minute free-write exercise Written in Bacton, Norfolk There are thunderflies trapped behind the glass of the picture...

Faithful: Flash Fiction Extract
The following is an extract from M. J. Severn's flash fiction piece entitled Faithful: When he met me, I had the void, I nursed it in a...


Arvon Day Exercise: "Deercote"
Arvon day exercise - led by Kit de Waal and Lisa Blower Theme: Location, zooming-in camera lens, stimulated by photograph of terraced...

M. J.'s Springtime News
M. J.'s Springtime News - What I've Been Up To... Happy Spring, readers! I wanted to write a short and sweet blog post about what I've...


Trobairitz (Poem)
Trobairitz by M. J. Severn My orisons, though odious, are erudite Tinctured with the covenants I write Regarding you, in your baddest...


Music Review: Dance by Nocturnal Coast
Music Review: Dance by Nocturnal Coast M. J. Severn Liverpudlian veterans of iridescent indie-rock/pop, Nocturnal Coast are at once...


Stalker (Original Song)
Hi readers, I am now for hire as a songwriter! I have a decade of songwriting experience in a variety of genres: pop, rock, country, folk...


Music Review: Dear Heart by Eliza And The Nancys
REVIEW: Dear Heart by Eliza And The Nancys Dear Heart, Eliza And The Nancys’ debut single, is a spellbinding springtime ballad that will...

Music Review: Lifting You Up by Jessy
REVIEW: Lifting You Up by Jessy “Whoever you are, wherever you are, come just as you are.” These are the embracing words of Jessy, a...


Music Review: Something by LYD
REVIEW: Something by LYD Something, Birmingham-based LYD’s new single, is a honey-sweet snapshot of the sour difficulties behind...


Music Review: Wednesday by SADGITTARIASS
REVIEW: Wednesday by SADGITTARIASS SADGITTARIASS is every hyperpop fan’s dream: contagious hooks drenched in sparkling autotune, beats...


Music Review: Darkroom by Ezzy
REVIEW: Darkroom by Ezzy Ezzy, hailing from Wales and a BIMM (British and Irish Modern Music Institute) student, modestly describes...


Music Review: Just A Little Broken by Pending
REVIEW: Just A Little Broken by Pending Pending, an English rock band hailing from Birmingham, are not what you might expect from a...
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