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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
🖊️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
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
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
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