Writers at Work 2018... the creative imagination

My gosh, where can I start, shall I tell you that when Horatio Clare was talking all I could see was an image of a Finish a skier sliding down a mountain, in my creative mind thinking this could be a character in my next novel, what did I do, I decided to throw a grenade in front of the skier and stood back to see her, come out clean the other side, I am still waiting. It seems she fell into what looks like an igloo, in it was a nest, in the nest a feather.

I came to the Hay Festival for the first time in 2016, and yesterday Mr Peter Florence said he came across me on the Hay Festival web site where I spoke about my interest in William Shakespeare and my Love for King Richard II and the role of the gods in determining the outcome of an evil that is so obvious. I was at the Hay Festival again in 2017 when I performed my one man play ‘’My mouth Brought me here’’ I was still an outsider. Hay Festival 2018 has been a different experience altogether, from the first talk given by Clare E Potter, being part of the Writers at Work, performing at the sold out starlight stage with Owen Sheers, being on the same stage as sage Menna Elfyn discussing language, poetry and the emergence of new voices.

Being part of the Hay Festival Writers at Work group and meeting all the great poets, fiction and nonfiction writers has sort of opened the floodgates of my literary creativities, as I walk and look at the many visitors at the Hay Festival, all I see are walking stories, fairies.

All the wonderful discussing and many shows we saw to help us in our creative journeys, I can’t thank enough all the various mentors I met, and long may this collaboration continue between literature Wales and the Hay festival organisers. I sat with Ifor ap Glyn the national poet of Wales and we laughed, he told me exactly what he meant with the phrase ‘’using Sellotape to fix broken biscuits’’. Hay Festival 2018, so far so good. The ‘bestest experience’ yet.