So last year, after the shocking death of Jonathan, our co-bookseller and friend, I decided to create something ambitious at Bookseller Crow Bookshop. @thebookseller.com covered the news. And it's all just begun this week... www.thebookseller.com/news/the-boo...

Put some oomph in your writing practice, or simply begin one. Sunday 5th October, 10-12.30pm. An online Life Story Writing workshop with our writer-in-residence, Karen McLeod. Details here: www.outsavvy.com/event/29810/...

OutSavvy - Write a short story from life with Karen McLeod - Sunday 5th October 2025 at Online Event. Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/29810/...

Karen (@karenmcleod.bsky.social) is an excellent writer/teacher/person and this masterclass is a bargain, online and will be excellent. 👇👇✍️✍️ www.outsavvy.com/event/29810/...

Only a few places left on my next in person Memoir/Life Stories writing course @booksellercrow ✍🏼 Starts 29th April - 3rd June, Tuesday evenings, 7.30-9.30pm. Full details here: booksellercrow.co.uk/about/creati... #writingcommunity #memoir #lifestories #inspiration #karenmcleod #liftingoff

What a beautiful library, and splendid evening out. Thanks Rosie x

🖊️Do you want to write creatively using your life stories as material? Well, join me this Sunday 2nd Feb 10am-1pm online for a live workshop where you'll be inspired and your creativity will get sparked - 3 places left!⚡️ More details here: www.outsavvy.com/event/24265/...

Hilary Mantel said, “When we remember, we don't reproduce the past, we create it” Next Sunday 2nd February, online, I am tutoring an online Introduction to Writing Life Stories, 10am-1pm. Six places left - see you in your comfies More details here: www.outsavvy.com/event/24265/...

Great opportunity to capture LGBTQ+ life stories with the brilliant @karenmcleod.bsky.social

Are you aged 60+ and part of the LGBTQ+ community? 🏳️‍🌈 Come for a drop-in session with tutor Karen McLeod @karenmcleod.bsky.social and see if our ‘A Life Written’ programme is the right fit for you! Mon 9 December, 12noon-2pm, NCW. Find out more: buff.ly/3ZpC51N

Chuffed to be working with @writerscentre.bsky.social next year as one of the tutors for 'A Life Written' for ten weekly life writing workshop sessions at Dragon Hall! Are you aged 60+ and part of the LGBTQ+ community? More details here: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/a-lif...

Great excitement here at Penge Towers as the 'Lifting Off' proofs have arrived. What a surreal moment. Ten years of hard graft - my new baby is in my hands. Not published until 6th June, you can show me love & pre-order from @booksellercrow.bsky.social: booksellercrow.co.uk/shop/lifting... #memoir

Hold on to your hats, folks! To round off LGBT+ History Month, here’s the GRAND COVER REVEAL of The Magic Farm and Other Queer Tales by Alf Le Flohic - queer oral histories from the 1970s and 1980s, coming very soon from us and Homo Made Books. Watch this space: bit.ly/magicfarmbook

Seeking queer women interviewees for my book on LGBTQ suburbia in Britain. Do please get in touch! www.johngrindrod.co.uk/lgbtqsuburbia

My new life writing-cum-essay, 'The Woman with all the Time' about being in New Zealand with Covid and learning about alpaca sex is now ready for consumption here substack.com/@karenmcleod

The Tiny Letter gang have decided to close their doors and so I'm moving my autobiographical essay-letter writing over to #Substack, the large attic space of the mind, furnished with pens and springy sofas for tall writers like me and their friends. Join me do karenmcleod.substack.com

Your hands may have warmed up enough by then to hold a pencil

New year, start writing! The dates have been announced for my first #creativewriting course of 2024 at Bookseller Crow on the hill. Tuesday 20th February – 27th March 2024, 7.30-9.30pm. More details in the event below or here: booksellercrow.co.uk/about/creati...