Melinda Appleby | 2016 February

29 Feb Reflecting on Rivers

Posted at 20:55h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

I live on a small inconsequential Suffolk river, the Dove. I like the fact that it moves quietly and unobserved through the landscape, a channel hiding among field boundaries. It was not always so.

18 Feb New Sandlines 2016 Workshop Announced

Posted at 10:25h in News by Melinda Appleby

Join Melinda and Lois on 25th April for a very special reunion writing workshop in the Forestry Commission classroom at Santon Downham, venue of the first Sandlines workshop. The day includes a river walk, time to share your work over the past year, new exercises,...

10 Feb The Fattening of the Buds

Posted at 17:23h in Journal by Melinda Appleby

I have been out collecting thoughts and looking for signs that the trees are at last breaking their winter slumber. In the Brecks you have to search for deciduous trees.