Funny Women Writers Wanted – not a phrase you hear very often
But this is for real Comedy Women in Print Prize is its third year and is the UK and Ireland’s first comedy literary prize (and only? can’t think of another). … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan might be looking for a new job…The Chronicles of Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
CELEBRATED Authority on almost everything, Mrs Finnegan is CURRENTLY housekeeper at THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE in the mostly pleasant town of Brighton & Hove, but is OPEN to offers… WHOEVER … Continue reading
Making a Poem – Eavan Boland QUOTES FOR WRITERS
If you can’t do a poem, you can do a line. And if you can’t do a line, you can do an image — and that pathway that leads you … Continue reading
Where is the Man I Married? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper listens to a young wife’s pleas
Mrs Finnegan – purveyor of wisdom and SAGE of the serving classes – is housekeeper at The Regency Town House in Brunswick Square, Brighton. People warned me against marrying my … Continue reading
To Hell With It All but only if…Colum MCann QUOTES FOR WRITERS
To hell with grammar, but only if you know the grammar first. To hell with formality, but only if you have learned what it means to be formal. To hell … Continue reading
Parlour Maid or Lapdog – whose side are you on? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper has made up her mind…
Mrs Finnegan, housekeeper at The Regency Town House and authority on life, love and lapdogs finds that she is the subject of PRAISE this week. Master Tiny Tickletums has to go … Continue reading
The Valley of Failure is where Writers hang out…Julian Gough QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Hey, see the Mountain of Success, way over there? The only way to get to it is through the Valley of Failure. There is no other way. It’s a peculiarity … Continue reading
Do Not Mock Weeping Women, says Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper
An acknowledged AUTHORITY on almost everything, Mrs Finnegan is the housekeeper at The Regency Town House in Brunswick Square Brighton and Hove. My family laugh at me for being so sentimental. I … Continue reading
“… through storytelling we share knowledge, recover from trauma, survive, thrive, re-build, testify…” Danny Denton QUOTES FOR WRITERS
And if “story” (be it journalism, memoir, poetry, fiction, chat, therapy, weather talk or whatever else) is our way of processing the things that happen to us and the things … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 