Wendy Pratt
@wendypratt.bsky.social
Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Writing room view
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Writing room view
Sneaking a chapter in before work.
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Sneaking a chapter in before work.
Ready to start the week.
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Ready to start the week.
Absolutely appalling use of ad space in the @theguardian.com app today. Do not call yourself a news channel if you place advertisements over the content. Utterly ridiculous. This ad is repeated over all the breaking story feed and when you remove it it leaves a grey square that can’t be moved.
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely appalling use of ad space in the @theguardian.com app today. Do not call yourself a news channel if you place advertisements over the content. Utterly ridiculous. This ad is repeated over all the breaking story feed and when you remove it it leaves a grey square that can’t be moved.
Sunday morning starting with coffee and Jane Eyre.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Sunday morning starting with coffee and Jane Eyre.
The morning beginning with good coffee and ‘The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots’ on BBC iplayer.
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The morning beginning with good coffee and ‘The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots’ on BBC iplayer.
This is a medlar. The Elizabethans called these ‘open arse’ .
You’re welcome.
You’re welcome.
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is a medlar. The Elizabethans called these ‘open arse’ .
You’re welcome.
You’re welcome.
Stopping in to Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium to sign some copies of The Ghost Lake. Such a thrill.
September 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Stopping in to Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium to sign some copies of The Ghost Lake. Such a thrill.
Ready to run this morning’s Finding Your Self in the Landscape workshop
September 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Ready to run this morning’s Finding Your Self in the Landscape workshop
Seeing your actual book in an actual bookshop never gets old.
September 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Seeing your actual book in an actual bookshop never gets old.
Last night I returned to poetry for a while, and it was blissful.
Chapel Allerton, as part of the arts festival.
Welcomed back to the poetry community. Found it very moving and exhilarating to get in front of an audience again.
Thank you x
Chapel Allerton, as part of the arts festival.
Welcomed back to the poetry community. Found it very moving and exhilarating to get in front of an audience again.
Thank you x
August 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Last night I returned to poetry for a while, and it was blissful.
Chapel Allerton, as part of the arts festival.
Welcomed back to the poetry community. Found it very moving and exhilarating to get in front of an audience again.
Thank you x
Chapel Allerton, as part of the arts festival.
Welcomed back to the poetry community. Found it very moving and exhilarating to get in front of an audience again.
Thank you x
The truth is, I am a chronic self doubter. There is no fixing it. It is part of the strangeness of my brain. The only way of living with it is noticing it, embracing it, and doing the thing anyway.
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August 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The truth is, I am a chronic self doubter. There is no fixing it. It is part of the strangeness of my brain. The only way of living with it is noticing it, embracing it, and doing the thing anyway.
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This week research for my historical fiction novel took me to King’s Manor in York. Originally the Abott’s house of St Mary’s abbey it was the seat of the council of the north. Henry 8 stayed there with Catherine Howard, and James 1/6 stayed there on his way to be crowned. It did not disappoint.
August 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
This week research for my historical fiction novel took me to King’s Manor in York. Originally the Abott’s house of St Mary’s abbey it was the seat of the council of the north. Henry 8 stayed there with Catherine Howard, and James 1/6 stayed there on his way to be crowned. It did not disappoint.
If the Salt Path situation has made you want to read more books about connecting to landscape and nature through walking, my memoir The Ghost Lake is based on a series of pilgrimages of place in the North Yorkshire landscape I live in, around the site of the extinct Palaeolithic lake Flixton.
July 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
If the Salt Path situation has made you want to read more books about connecting to landscape and nature through walking, my memoir The Ghost Lake is based on a series of pilgrimages of place in the North Yorkshire landscape I live in, around the site of the extinct Palaeolithic lake Flixton.
I have a wine subscription, which I use to save up for treat wines at Christmas and for celebrating birthdays. The case arrived today with a note to myself which I forgot I’d written. Thank you past Wendy, I really do deserve a little treat. 🍷😘
July 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I have a wine subscription, which I use to save up for treat wines at Christmas and for celebrating birthdays. The case arrived today with a note to myself which I forgot I’d written. Thank you past Wendy, I really do deserve a little treat. 🍷😘
Good morning from my scruffy little writing room. Is this the week I breakthrough my current plot difficulties and get the writing project to the next chapter? Please. God. If you’re listening.
Coffee’s poured, let’s go.
Coffee’s poured, let’s go.
July 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Good morning from my scruffy little writing room. Is this the week I breakthrough my current plot difficulties and get the writing project to the next chapter? Please. God. If you’re listening.
Coffee’s poured, let’s go.
Coffee’s poured, let’s go.
The elder flower ‘champagne’ is bottled. Now we wait. 🥂
June 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The elder flower ‘champagne’ is bottled. Now we wait. 🥂
Good morning from my little kitchen where I’m pushing through a block on my current writing project. What are you up to this week?
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Good morning from my little kitchen where I’m pushing through a block on my current writing project. What are you up to this week?
Thank you, Georgia 0’Keeffe
June 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Thank you, Georgia 0’Keeffe
Yesterday in my mum’s garden. Everything open and fragile and beautiful.
June 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Yesterday in my mum’s garden. Everything open and fragile and beautiful.
A poem from my new @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk. This early medieval woman found during an excavation at Sewerby in Yorkshire. Found face down in the grave with a quern stone (a grinding stone) pushed into her back. It’s thought she was buried alive.
June 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A poem from my new @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk. This early medieval woman found during an excavation at Sewerby in Yorkshire. Found face down in the grave with a quern stone (a grinding stone) pushed into her back. It’s thought she was buried alive.
The sound of the breeze in the trees. Light being chipped by the movement. Perfect.
June 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The sound of the breeze in the trees. Light being chipped by the movement. Perfect.
Good morning from my sunny kitchen table where I’m finishing up my short story before heading into the garden to fight the nettles.
May 31, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Good morning from my sunny kitchen table where I’m finishing up my short story before heading into the garden to fight the nettles.