The People’s Choice!
Last month I submitted and read a fiction piece of writing in the Williamstown Literary Festival’s ‘People’s Choice’ awards, and was really chuffed to be voted as the winner!
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Jul 29, 2020 | Featured, Life, Writing | 0 |
Last month I submitted and read a fiction piece of writing in the Williamstown Literary Festival’s ‘People’s Choice’ awards, and was really chuffed to be voted as the winner!
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Dec 21, 2018 | Life, Mental health, Writing | 0 |
American writer Jessamyn West, author of The Friendly Persuasion, said, “People who keep journals have life twice”. It’s hyperbole, but appeals to those of us who want to live a life worth remembering. To live a life twice! How grand.
Journaling is something I’ve done off and on from the time I could write as a young boy. My grandmother Ann, a progressive and learned woman of letters herself, would let me read the diaries and letters of her parents and grandparents, and while I never knew them as people, their lives and thoughts came alive on the page and set my young imagination on fire.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Dec 13, 2018 | Life, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
If you don’t have your kids for the day, or part of it at least, the loneliness and sadness of Christmas as a single dad can overwhelm.
This Christmas will be the third since the mother of my children and I chose to separate, but it will be my first with my kids and me at our home on Christmas morning … I’m so excited!
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Apr 13, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Writing | 0 |
My local community newspaper, The Westsider, invited me to write a monthly column on mental...
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