In November 2021, Pens of the Earth, an environmental writing project which encourages writers to create short stories, poems and narrative non-fiction with a positive environmental message, published my first ever piece of narrative (creative) non-fiction. You can read it in full on the Pens of the Earth website by clicking on the excerpt below.

The churchyard where my father’s ashes are buried is a peaceful place. I like to linger beneath the spreading chestnut tree by his memorial stone and listen to music of the wind in the trees. But it is also unpeaceful, a site of tension. The struggle between eternal and ephemeral. Between then and now. Between holding on and letting go. Between grief and healing. Between the dead and the living. Between nature and us.