Tag Archives: literature
Poem: The Last Drop
This is for all the breastfeeding mothers who make it through the pain and the pressure to discover that nourishing your baby with your body is the most fulfilling thing you can do.
Why I’ve chosen to write short stories over novels
Hi, my name’s Beth and I’m a serial novel starter. Not always a novel finisher. Over the years I’ve written the beginnings or first drafts of five different novels. One is 100,000+ words long. One was briefly self-published. One was submitted to literary agents. One is an unsatisfying first draft that got a bit lost. […]
Motherhood in words: essential recommended reading
It is a truth universally acknowledged that once you become a mother, you will only want to read about motherhood. Or maybe that’s just me? Over the past year and a bit, I’ve read some amazing works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry about motherhood, and even been inspired to start the early beginnings of my […]
A year of motherhood: thoughts & poems
Hello there, it’s been a while! I’ve been pretty quiet here on my blog for recent months and the reason for that is explained by the title of this blog post. Early last year my life changed in the most extreme, soul-shifting way possible. I became a mother. The past year has been wonderful, exhausting, […]
Mother Of All Things: feminist fairy tale published on Corvid Queen
Hooray, I’ve had my first publication of the year and it’s with the fabulous online literary journal Corvid Queen! My short story, Mother Of All Things, has been published online and can be read here. Another piece written during my Creative Writing Master’s, Mother Of All Things is an imagined retelling of the Hungarian myth […]
My Best Friend Chloe: published in Gutter magazine
Good news! My short story My Best Friend Chloe has been published in issue 28 of the wonderful Gutter magazine. Gutter is an award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers living in Scotland and around the world. I was over the moon to be selected for publication, and even more excited […]
A Séance For The Living: ghost story published in Mslexia
As readers of this blog might know, I fell in love with the short story form during my Creative Writing Master’s and since then have regularly written new stories across all sorts of genres and themes, and been diligently submitting them out for competitions and publications. When I first saw women’s writing magazine Mslexia put […]
What I’ve been reading lately
As we near the end of the fifth month of 2023, I’m somewhat ashamed that this is my first blog post of the year. While I might have been AWOL on my blog, I have been quite busy in life – and in life, reading some pretty good books. I therefore thought it’d be nice […]
Review: Body Kintsugi, Senka Marić
Picture this: I’m lounging by a hotel pool under blue skies in Corfu, enjoying my holiday in the sun. And I’m crying. I’m crying because I’m finishing up the final pages of Senka Marić’s transformative Body Kintsugi and I myself feel a little broken and put back together again. Perhaps not the most auspicious choice […]
Shriek Song: A Brief History of the Banshee
In a recent blog post I shared the exciting news that my short story, Shriek Song, has been published in the recent edition of New Writing Scotland. Shriek Song follows the encounter between a girl and a banshee during a wild storm in the Irish countryside. In writing my short story collection about women and […]
Bethany Wren 