Category is: Creativity

Posing with my grandad and a donkey

Everything is getting dark

…and I keep dreaming about my dead relatives

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An image of the altar during our intuitive Autumn intentions ritual

The answers already inside us: self-trust and intuitive witchcraft

On a sleep-deprived autumnal Tuesday, I met up with a mate for coffee then ended up doing a ritual.

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Jane Claire Bradley hosting Stockport Pride in 2023

This isn’t working

Or: out with success, in with queer failure

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Jane reading the launch of Dear Neighbour in Manchester in June 2023 - photo by Laura Kidd

My debut novel came out

Dear Neighbour is finally out in the world! It’s taken me the past fortnight to come back down to earth after a brilliant launch event for it, where I had the beautifully affirming experience of being in a room with so many of my family, friends, creative idols and extended community. And mate, it was joyful af.

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Dear Neighbour proof copy

Dear reader…

The story behind the story of my forthcoming debut novel

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An image of a sign pointing the way towards the Camino Frances route

How I decided to walk 100 miles across Spain

The long journey to the Camino Frances, and the first couple of days along the way…

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Loved list: 2022 💖

Every year, I devour things and love them hard. The ones that stick with me most get shared in my newsletter throughout the year, and the loved list is a collection collaged together from there. In this edition, you’ll find the books and essays that had the most impact on my head and heart as I moved through 2022.

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Image of laptop with stickers via Svetlana Romashenko on Pexels

We had a time, didn’t we?

Somehow it’s been an entire year since I stepped back from For Books’ Sake, the non-profit I founded and ran for over a decade.

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Jane onstage in August 2022

It’s been a year since I got onstage

For several years pre-pandemic, August and the months leading up to it meant only one thing: Edinburgh Fringe.

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