Category is: Creativity

Forest image by Roman Datsiuk via Unsplash

Brain food: short stories devoured while writing my own

A process diary about the material shaping my collection-in-progress

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Draw me like one of your French girls

On life drawing, learning to love my body and getting naked in my mate’s basement

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Two weeks alone in Valencia

In the first few days of this year, I did something I’ve never done before. I travelled alone to another country, and stayed there for two weeks. I’ve been away by myself before, but only ever within the UK, and for a day or two at a time. Never this far or this long.

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Jane Claire Bradley with her chapbook Lost + Found

Getting LOST + FOUND

Late last year, I got into my sixth-hand little Toyota late at night, driving through freezing fog down a series of almost-empty motorways to get to my friend’s adorable witch cottage, light glowing in the front window of the narrow terrace at the end of the path.

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Smiley backpack

Found in drafts: I’ve got baggage (but I’m keeping it close)

On being scared, coping through preparedness and going to bed with my shoes on…

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Graffiti image bia Victor Behrens via Unsplash

The end is coming

Dark sky. Dark days. Dark nights. Or: marking the winter solstice with a video of my first ever performance with a live band…

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Jane in Belfast in November 2023 for Outburst Queer Arts Festival

The time is now (f🤬ck perfectionism)

A message from a Belfast attic about not waiting

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Posing with my grandad and a donkey

Everything is getting dark

…and I keep dreaming about my dead relatives

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