Tag Archives: Women

You Don’t Need A Manifesto To Begin @ Hundred Heroines Museum, A Visual Homage To Sophie

My visual poem You Don’t Need A Manifesto To Begin (2024) is exhibited at the Hundred Heroines museum and art gallery. Curated by the tour de force that is Ania Ready, of I Also Fight Windmills – A Visual Homage To Sophie runs until June 1st in celebration of the life of Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska. Also… Read More »

Francisca Aninat: new feature published

Autumn News September 23 – Writing Classes and More!

Writing Success Sessions At The Feed Social Supermarket Lovely to start teaching writing classes at The Feed’s Social Supermarket in Norwich on Thursday mornings for children aged 11-16. These writing success sessions have an Autumn theme, but are also open to children to bring longer pieces they can work on each week – from comic… Read More »

Writing Inspired by Anna Sewell on BBC Radio Norfolk

Pieces of writing from women celebrating Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty were broadcast by BBC Radio Norfolk in April and May 2021 as part of our project with Feathers Futures funded by Norfolk County Council. Thanks so much to all who sent in submissions and audio recordings it’s been fantastic to read and hear… Read More »

Celebrating Anna Sewell – New Poem, ‘Dark Horses’ + Free Women’s Creative Writing Workshops

Dark Horses She couldn’t leave the house. But still her incendiary kindness knew no bounds, hooves thundering, the first of its kind. Black Beauty. A legend, now but back then they called you powerless to do what you could do so well. Anna’s little thing, a trail blazer sold for twenty pounds breaking new ground,… Read More »

Mystery Lunch – 29th November, Great Yarmouth Library

All welcome to this community lunch at Great Yarmouth Library to celebrate Yarmouth Mysteries funded by Arts Council England. Come and enjoy stories by St George’s Primary School children, plus micromysteries written by women of Great Yarmouth celebrating women in the Borough. Treasure hunt for children, plus writing resources from myself inspired by the… Read More »

Feature published: Looking for Yoko Ono

My feature on YOKO ONO:LOOKING FOR is published this month in the August issue of Cambridge Edition. This city wide programme of installations, interventions, happenings appears in Cambridge until December 2019. Read my full feature online here, which takes a look at YOKO ONO: SKY PIECES at the Heong Gallery, as part of the programme… Read More »

Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 – Review

It’s Thursday night and there is a man-giraffe leaping around on stage, with electronica blasting across the frenzied audience – this feels more like a rave, than folk, but this is Tuung, returning to a festival where experimentation is the new normal, for a scene often stereotyped as ‘socks and sandals’. This is the 55th… Read More »

Nominate Inspirational Women of Great Yarmouth – Call Out!

International Women’s Day is always a fantastic way to celebrate women in your life. This year, I’m calling for nominations for inspirational women of Great Yarmouth – who will be announced on Harbour Radio, plus inspire stories written by women in Great Yarmouth, with me later this Spring. It was fabulous to see so many… Read More »

‘The Enchanted Mirror’ – Text Art Poem at ‘Gazing Back’, Cambridge

I’m pleased to have a new poem ‘The Enchanted Mirror’ exhibited as a text art piece, as part of Gazing Back, a group show of women artists, curated by Jill Eastland and Faye Wright, responding to concepts of the ‘male gaze’. Says Faye, ‘I also wanted to exhibit work that provoked the audience to think… Read More »