Moss & Clover

24/04/2025

The aftermath.. Teddy the cat suffering from a strong case of FOMO (soz, you’re a boy Ted 🐈 😜)
Space de-robed of tassels, extra goodie bags collected and worksheets collated. In one of the activities last night I asked..
1. Why you came
To support Emma (awww guys 💞)
Remember writing
Meet and connect with like minded women who enjoy words
Inspiration
We love poetry
Community
Networking
Coming to a safe space
To hear spoken word
Motivation
Reading inspiration
Doing something totally new
Reconnecting with life outside motherhood/work
Need to belong
Meeting published authors
Hear new perspectives
Develop confidence

2. What you’d want from future events (themes, what you want to take away from the night)
More Room of One’s Own events (yay!)
Listen to authors - find out about festive processes
Deep dives into themes
Writing workshops
Staffed bar (let’s not mention that 🤯🤯)
Snacks (feel you)
Routes into publishing
Ideas to manage work/life balance
Validating/challenging the mental
Load
Different genres
industry tips
release itinerary before event
Skills swapping
Opening the mic to the floor
Better name tags
Academic voices (I now just the people..)
Being proactively inclusive
I hear you and I have actively listened - watch this space. The Sheffield Women’s Literary Community has spoken 😂🎤✍️📖✨

24/04/2025

Well that was a little bit special!!! Last night was really magical at the first Room of One’s Own Women’s Literary evening . Massive thanks to and Bev and friends from the .writersworkshop - you brought the fun and inspiration!! And HUGE thanks to everyone who took a chance on the first one and all those wonderous open mic-ers!!! Can’t wait to see you all in June and can’t wait to hear more poetry and storytellers 💞✨🎤. Remember, you can book onto the range of workshops The Writers Workshop has to offer, and you can buy Rachel’s fabulous novel from (also keep your eyes peeled for their events too!!). Thanks to the goodie bag freebies provided by .writersworkshop, and .
Reading list (books mentioned at the night - suggested not compulsory 😂) as below:
It Comes from the River, Rachel Bower
Bee, Rachel Bower
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

23/04/2025

Ready 🪩💃🏼✨
The tassels are up, the goodie bags made, the speakers and open mic-ers on their way. Can’t wait to see my Room of One’s Own attendees tonight. ✨✍️📖

22/04/2025

Alllllll prepped for tomorrow night’s Room of One’s Own Women’s Literature evening! ✍️ 💞✨ SO FLIPPING EXCITED!!!! 💃🏼 🪩

20/04/2025

Eeek!!! Completely sold out. Can’t wait to see you Wednesday for an evening of fun, inspiration and joy!!! Can’t wait and .writersworkshop 🙌🏻✨📖

17/04/2025

Last few tickets (in the sold out and then extended ticket release!!) for my first Room of One’s Own Women’s Literature evening.. it’s going to awesome- so excited.. main share with amazing , activities led by the fabulous .writersworkshop and some wonderful open mic-ers!!! CANNOT WAIT!!! ✨ 💃🏼
Link in bio for tickets (on Eventbrite) ✌🏻 💞✨
There are tickets left until I say sold out - please ignore comments by people trying to sell them through dm’s (never had this before - very odd!)

04/04/2025

To the Mamas of tween and teenage girls.. Bruh, it’s not giving.. 🤣🤣🤣
Ps. Keep wearing it anyway. ✌🏻
Not Giving

Thank god
for skin of rhino.
A protection from your
“Oh no
Mum,
it’s not giving”
Living proof that karma
is a bitch.
Your eyes
scanning,
itching,
to tell me:
My clothes too bright,
too tight,
too bold,
too old for that pattern.
This make up no longer
flatters my red skin tone.
You fire quotes
like bullets of reference
from that bloody mobile phone.

24/03/2025

Made some thank you’s to hand out to some beautiful people tonight. Dont know what I’d do without them 💫🫶🏻 💐 felt good to be holding stems again, I have to say..

23/03/2025

Oh my goodness!!!! More than a month to go and there are only 6 tickets left..whoop whoop! If you are waiting to hear back from friends, text them pronto.. 🤣🏃‍♀️📱 ✨
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-room-of-ones-own-womens-literary-club-tickets-1260926578339?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

14/03/2025

First up at A Room of One’s Own Women’s Literature Club…. 🥁 🥁 🥁 the wonderful . One of Sheffield’s finest poets and authors ✨✍️
She’ll be joining us to talk about being a writer and her new book “It Comes from the River” (Bloomsbury, 2025). There will also be a Q&A..
Rachel, an open mic 🎤 and goodie bag, all under the roof of the fabulous …what more could you want??.. get booking 🏃‍♀️ ✨
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-room-of-ones-own-womens-literary-club-tickets-1260926578339?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

13/03/2025

Did a little happy dance this morning when the postie brought this little beauty - my gorgeous stamp with my new A Room of One’s Own logo on!! 💞💞💞 be quiet my beating heart 😂 💓 . Expect this all over the goodie bag loot at the first event on the 23rd April. For more deets see the events brite page. Tickets will@be on sale until Friday 18th April or until sold out ✨🎤✍️
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-room-of-ones-own-womens-literary-club-tickets-1260926578339?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

11/03/2025

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I have had to change the date of this event to the following week - Wednesday 23rd April! If you’ve already booked tickets - I have sent you an email. There are still tickets available if this change of date means you can now come?! 📖 ✍️ 💞✨

08/03/2025

Well, Happy International Women’s Day everyone!!! A what a day for it - check out that yellow thing on the sky 🌞 ✨ Amazing. Here’s a poem about something I see a lot with women - outside cafes, school gates and work places - the truly amazing female embrace..
And way more than a hug.. true love in a looooooong squeeze. I am lucky enough to have experienced many of these gorgeous embraces: which are full on two handed hugs with whispers of “love you” “miss you so much” “you know where I am if I need you” “ring me anytime” “so lovely to see you”, etc, etc.. not really wanting to let go.. sometimes with dewy eyes or full on fat tears falling down cheeks into neck 😭😭😭 it’s just beautiful. 💞💔💞💔💞💔💞💔💞

03/03/2025

28/02/2025

This afternoon I am VERY excited. Smiling all day, giddy kipper, can’t sit still excited. Because today I am taking a trip with my daughter to see my best friend, partner in crime and god mother to all three of my daughters (or fairy godmother as I like to call her). After years of being a ladette, with mainly male friends (a history of cruelty from girls in secondary school will do that to you 😂), she restored my faith in female friendship. And what a friendship it has been. Looking forward to a weekend of belly aching laughs, probably a bit of crying and speaking freely and frankly. We’re a-coming 💞💃🏼⚡️

27/02/2025

💞⚡️ NEW NIGHT ALERT ⚡️💞 calling all bookish women.. I alert your eyes to this: A Room of One’s Own, Women’s Literary Club. A super fun, non-judgemental, inclusive book club and open mic night. There will be guest performers and sharers, games, open mics for poetry and story telling; and of course, book club conversation! 📖 ✨🎤⚡️✍️.
Feel comfortable and heard in a safe and supportive environment. Expect juicy themes including but not exclusively; feminism and gender, motherhood (or not), reproduction, menstruation, Peri-/menopause, contraception, relationships, inequality in home/work . I can’t wait see what magic happens when we share our women’s experience ✨💞⚡️💞✨💞
First up is Rachel Bower, local published poet and novelist. So excited I could pop 💥
£10 plus booking fee for the waged/£5 for unwaged and those on maternity leave.
Wednesday 23rd April, 7.30pm, Top Floor, Cambridge Street Collective.
A room of one’s own, Women’s Literary Club https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-room-of-ones-own-womens-literary-club-tickets-1260926578339?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile
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