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The Blueprint
Last year (2021) I took part in the Comma Press Short story course with K.M. Elkes and a bunch of budding (but clearly very talented) new authors to get back in touch with my passion for creative writing which was dormant for a while. For one reason or another, when I was doing the course,
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Transport Tales: A Date with Inspiration
It was clear. The woman on the train who sat in the row opposite me had long passed the honeymoon stage in her relationship with inspiration. I could tell by the furious look she gave anyone who passed her, making her move her position, tearing her away from the laptop screen where her one true
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5 things I learned at the #BCLT2018 summer school (apart from translations)
BCLT’s International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School at the University of East Anglia was so full of positive emotions that it will keep me buzzing for weeks to come. My heartfelt thanks to Latvian Literature who sponsored my attendance, because, within a single week, I learned more than I have learned in the past year. And
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Smells Like Tarmac, Smells Like Home
Two months in that’s when your smell changed You stayed over at mine that night after another shift at the shit restaurant where you had to work until you figured things out It had been an unremarkable day and you complained of your customers and managers who never seemed to understand then hugged me
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Don’t Listen to Beautiful Fiction
don’t listen to beautiful fiction to those who said they’ll love you forever because forever is a long time and no one can make that kind of commitment listen instead to the drumming inside your head signalling red flags read the early warning signs they’re there for a reason so don’t turn them into works
Ieva Lakute 