It’s been another busy book, litfest and chat-filled week and I’ve been loving it!

It’s was fantastic to meet so many fellow writers and readers at the Worcester Literature Festival 2011 meeting on Thursday, as part of my day as writer in residence at Worcester’s Oxfam Bookshop and talking to a creative writing group at Droitwich Library on Friday about my poetry collection Into the Yell.

In fact, I couldn’t say what I enjoyed most out of hearing all the fantastic ideas for the literature festival, running my ‘radio Bookfest’ at Oxfam Bookshop and the reading, Q & A session and impromptu workshop I lead at the library. Not that I’m obsessed or anything, but it is great to see so many people not just reading and writing poetry!

Enthusiasm is definitely a theme of the weekend too as I’ve just found a lovely new (for me!) writers’ group and have been sorting the finishing touches for my ‘Window on the arts’ poetry canvases, photography and poems display that goes up tomorrow in the former Beaubelles shop in Salter’s Shopping Centre, St Andrew’s Square, Droitwich. It’s on for two weeks, so hopefully lots of people will get a chance to see it and I can’t wait to hear their feedback!

But first the weekend and a lazy Sunday’s afternoon’s relaxation – in other words time for some leisurely reading. Bliss!