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Karen McLeod
@karenmcleod.bsky.social
Memoir 'Lifting Off' published in 2024 ✈️
Novel 'In Search of the Missing Eyelash' 🔎
Betty Trask winner
Writer-in-residence @booksellercrow
Writer & performer of Barbara Brownskirt
Join me here karenmcleod.substack.com

Put some oomph in your writing practice, or simply begin one. Sunday 5th October, 10-12.30pm. An online Life Story Writing workshop with our writer-in-residence, Karen McLeod.
Details here: www.outsavvy.com/event/29810/...
September 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
OutSavvy - Write a short story from life with Karen McLeod - Sunday 5th October 2025 at Online Event. Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/29810/...
Write a short story from life with Karen McLeod Tickets - - OutSavvy
Join award-winning author Karen McLeod for an inspiring, interactive Masterclass that dives into the art of writing from life. Together we will explore how to delve into long-lost material, then hone ...
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September 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Karen (@karenmcleod.bsky.social) is an excellent writer/teacher/person and this masterclass is a bargain, online and will be excellent. 👇👇✍️✍️

www.outsavvy.com/event/29810/...
Write a short story from life with Karen McLeod Tickets - - OutSavvy
Join award-winning author Karen McLeod for an inspiring, interactive Masterclass that dives into the art of writing from life. Together we will explore how to delve into long-lost material, then hone ...
www.outsavvy.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Only a few places left on my next in person Memoir/Life Stories writing course
@booksellercrow
✍🏼
Starts 29th April - 3rd June, Tuesday evenings, 7.30-9.30pm. Full details here: booksellercrow.co.uk/about/creati...
#writingcommunity #memoir #lifestories #inspiration #karenmcleod #liftingoff
Creative Writing Courses // Bookseller Crow Bookshop, Crystal Palace South London
Creative writing course run by prize-winning author Karen McLeod.
booksellercrow.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What a beautiful library, and splendid evening out. Thanks Rosie x
Interviewed @karenmcleod.bsky.social at Bethnal Green library about her memoir Lifting Off, life writing, identity, authenticity, creativity, inner conflict, homophobia and more
#booksky #queerwriters
February 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🖊️Do you want to write creatively using your life stories as material? Well, join me this Sunday 2nd Feb 10am-1pm online for a live workshop where you'll be inspired and your creativity will get sparked - 3 places left!⚡️
More details here: www.outsavvy.com/event/24265/...
January 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Hilary Mantel said, “When we remember, we don't reproduce the past, we create it”
Next Sunday 2nd February, online, I am tutoring an online Introduction to Writing Life Stories, 10am-1pm.
Six places left - see you in your comfies
More details here: www.outsavvy.com/event/24265/...
January 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Great opportunity to capture LGBTQ+ life stories with the brilliant @karenmcleod.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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Are you aged 60+ and part of the LGBTQ+ community? 🏳️‍🌈

Come for a drop-in session with tutor Karen McLeod @karenmcleod.bsky.social and see if our ‘A Life Written’ programme is the right fit for you!

Mon 9 December, 12noon-2pm, NCW. Find out more: buff.ly/3ZpC51N
November 27, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Chuffed to be working with @writerscentre.bsky.social next year as one of the tutors for 'A Life Written' for ten weekly life writing workshop sessions at Dragon Hall!
Are you aged 60+ and part of the LGBTQ+ community?
More details here:
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/a-lif...
November 27, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Great excitement here at Penge Towers as the 'Lifting Off' proofs have arrived. What a surreal moment. Ten years of hard graft - my new baby is in my hands. Not published until 6th June, you can show me love & pre-order from @booksellercrow.bsky.social: booksellercrow.co.uk/shop/lifting...
#memoir
February 29, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Hold on to your hats, folks! To round off LGBT+ History Month, here’s the GRAND COVER REVEAL of The Magic Farm and Other Queer Tales by Alf Le Flohic - queer oral histories from the 1970s and 1980s, coming very soon from us and Homo Made Books.

Watch this space: bit.ly/magicfarmbook
February 29, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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Seeking queer women interviewees for my book on LGBTQ suburbia in Britain. Do please get in touch! www.johngrindrod.co.uk/lgbtqsuburbia
January 31, 2024 at 9:01 AM
My new life writing-cum-essay, 'The Woman with all the Time' about being in New Zealand with Covid and learning about alpaca sex is now ready for consumption here substack.com/@karenmcleod
February 3, 2024 at 7:58 AM
The Tiny Letter gang have decided to close their doors and so I'm moving my autobiographical essay-letter writing over to #Substack, the large attic space of the mind, furnished with pens and springy sofas for tall writers like me and their friends.
Join me do karenmcleod.substack.com
December 12, 2023 at 9:19 AM
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Your hands may have warmed up enough by then to hold a pencil
New year, start writing! The dates have been announced for my first #creativewriting course of 2024 at Bookseller Crow on the hill. Tuesday 20th February – 27th March 2024, 7.30-9.30pm. More details in the event below or here: booksellercrow.co.uk/about/creati...
November 30, 2023 at 7:50 AM
New year, start writing! The dates have been announced for my first #creativewriting course of 2024 at Bookseller Crow on the hill. Tuesday 20th February – 27th March 2024, 7.30-9.30pm. More details in the event below or here: booksellercrow.co.uk/about/creati...
November 7, 2023 at 9:05 AM