Pastel covers and smaller stages: on being a woman who writes, and a woman writer

So you want to chair a panel?

Joke, of course you don’t, it’s much more fun to be a speaker*.

No one wants to chair a panel: it’s like being an unholy combination of shepherd, bouncer and mum. Consequently, people often do it extremely badly.

The best of 2017

Not going to lie, I’ve mostly written this so I can reassure myself I did something this year other than wait for the election…