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Get to know… Carys Shannon

Writing, nature, and creativity have always been the through lines of my life, but it wasn’t easy to claim my voice as a writer. I didn’t...

I was never the most expressive person in the world; to say the least. It was my way as a child, to observe the world around me...

I was a reader, not a writer - all kinds of genres, all kinds of authors. But there were words in me. I could feel...

The reason I write is another thing that changed this year. Deep in the ‘core belief’ file I threw out my idea of changing people...

I used to think I ran the planet and when I stopped, wondered how the world might get on without me (to be fair, not...

When I started writing poems it came to me completely off guard. The pen was moving without me, just flowing the words out. After joining...