Sapphic stories and tantalising tales
This is a retelling of the old Romany version of Cinderella. In this one the young woman has a magical mossy coat instead of a fairy godmother. She also has a mother who has strange ideas about parenting and how to deal with men. But at its heart it's still the same old sexist nonsense.… Continue reading Inventing our stories: Telling it the way it should be, not the way it was
I've been working on rewriting some old fairy tales. I've written my own versions of The Little Mermaid, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and I'm working on a pretty twisted version of Snow White. This is the latest one I'm re-imagining: Jack and the Beanstalk. I just read this old Ladybird version and came up… Continue reading Re-imagining the tales they tell us: “Mumma fetch the axe.”
Despite the fact that my upside-down plan was to aim for 100 rejection letters, it's still hard when I actually get them. In the past two weeks I've had two. I suppose I should look on the positive side and see that I have sent two pieces of work out into the big wide world.… Continue reading Wound Lickage
Dane Divine: Storyteller 