The Adoption Campaign
Having completed my memoir, Her Blue Eye, Mine (and shopped around unsuccessfully so far for an agent!) I have been sending sections off...
top of page
Lynnda Wardle
Search
Lynnda Wardle
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
bench // marks
In February 2021, locked-down and frustrated, I undertook a daily walk to photograph and write about one fixed place, a bench facing onto...
119 views0 comments
Lynnda
- May 4, 2019
- 1 min
The Mundane Goes Weird
A review of Vicky Grut's short story collection 'Live Show: Drink Included' (Holland Park Press, 2018) Published in Glasgow Review of...
30 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Jan 19, 2019
- 3 min
Reads of 2018
First published in Glasgow Review of Books The best reading experiences are journeys; books that move you from one place to another,...
18 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Jul 26, 2018
- 1 min
No Honourable Goddamn Stereotypes
My review on Glasgow Review of Books of Leo Zeilig's rich and absorbing novel that moves between London and Zimbabwe. Published by Hope...
4 views0 comments
Lynnda
- Nov 6, 2017
- 1 min
Writer's Kitchen - Faith & Food
November 11th, 4 pm - 6: 30 pm, Soul Food Sisters Cafe, 202 Gallowgate, Glasgow, G1 5DS Join us in our our final workshop in the Writer's...
10 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Oct 26, 2017
- 1 min
The Writer's Kitchen Feast and Harvest
This month we will be sharing stories and wonderful, exploring Feast & Harvest - those brimming seasonal gluts and the plethora of...
10 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Oct 14, 2017
- 1 min
Writing your Life: Autumn Memoir Workshops
Its that time of year again! As the seasons change, it provides a perfect opportunity to reflect and explore our memory and write from...
31 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Sep 10, 2017
- 1 min
The Writer's Kitchen - Cooking up Stories about Food & Life - sweets!
Sept 30th, Soul Food Sisters, 202 Gallowgate, Glasgow, G1 5DS The latest in a series of workshops exploring our wonderfully complex...
13 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Aug 31, 2017
- 2 min
AYOW (A Year of Writing)
In February 2016, I decided that the way to continue writing, to be motivated and to not give up when things got tough, was to find a...
22 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Jul 29, 2017
- 1 min
The Writer's Kitchen
I'm really excited to be collaborating with the talented chef, Kawther Luay from Ruzbowl on a new series of creative writing workshops...
23 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Jul 26, 2017
- 1 min
African Hustle
I am delighted that my story 'States of Emergency' (Set in Joburg during the 80s) is published in the latest New Orleans Review -...
11 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Sep 11, 2016
- 1 min
You have struck women!
Delighted that this short piece about National Women's Day in South Africa has been published by the Dangerous Women Project See here for...
5 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Aug 17, 2016
- 1 min
Memories into Memoir - Writing Workshop
Last year my writing friend June and I hosted a memoir writing workshop. We had a great day sharing stories. There was an intensity to...
14 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Jul 10, 2016
- 1 min
Revisiting Riviersonderend
When I was around 12 or 13 I travelled with my father back to his birthplace, a farm in Riviersonderend in the North Cape (translated...
11 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Oct 26, 2015
- 1 min
Life Writing Workshop
Life Writing Workshop Saturday 28th November.10am-4pm. ‘The Practice’ 17 Park Circus Place, G3 6AH Last month I attended the Memoir...
12 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Sep 25, 2015
- 4 min
Impressions of a week at Moniack Mhor
Memoir Course - Moniack Mhor – Sept 2015 Memoir Course - Moniack Mhor – Sept 2015 In September I attended the Memoir course with Janice...
18 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- Jun 28, 2015
- 1 min
A Widow's Story
Joyce Carol Oates - Short Review of 'A Widow's Story' I have come to JCO lately, and this memoir is breathtaking in its ability to...
2 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- May 31, 2015
- 2 min
Townie
Andre Dubus III – Townie: A Memoir Let's get this out the way at the start, yes, he is the son of the esteemed short story writer Andre...
5 views0 comments
Lynnda Wardle
- May 31, 2015
- 2 min
Anthems and cultural awkwardness
I recently attended a book event where two well established young South African writers were reading. Everything proceeded well, until at...
9 views0 comments
bottom of page