Sometimes, in amongst all the darkness and disaster, it just feels incredibly important to celebrate some of the fun and\/or good stuff happening. So here’s a few things going on right now:<\/p>\n
I currently have a guest post, The Grand Symbiosis: Fantasy & History<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>featured on the Orbit<\/a> <\/strong>blog. (Orbit is my UK\/AU\/NZ publisher <\/span>and The Heir of Night<\/em>, of course, was released in the UK on March 3.)<\/p>\n March is Women’s History Month<\/strong> and over on Even in a little thing<\/a>, <\/em>Gillian Polack<\/strong> has been running a Women’s History guest post series, all by women writers. Some fascinating posts have already featured and I’m looking forward to what the rest of the month brings. (I have contributed a post myself and will let you know when that runs.)<\/p>\n Another exciting project that is on the way has been put together by SpecFicNZ<\/a> core group members, Cassie Hart<\/a> and Anna Caro<\/a> as a fundraiser for the Christchurch earthquake. Tales for Canterbury <\/strong>will be “an anthology of short stories loosely themed around survival, hope and the future. All profits of this anthology will be donated to the Red Cross Earthquake Appeal, or another registered charity aimed at aiding those in need in Canterbury.”<\/em> According to Cassie and Anna, the purpose of the anthology is two-fold: to help financially, but also\u00a0 to provide entertainment and alleviation in a time of crisis. They hope the anthology’s words will help make a difference.<\/p>\n I hope so, too—and because supporting and rebuilding Christchurch after the earthquake is very important to me as a resident and a writer, I am delighted to be able to contribute a short story, The Fountain<\/em>, to Tales for Canterbury<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can go directly to the website here<\/a>, read the list of contributors here<\/a>, and also listen to Cassie’s interview<\/a> with Lynn Freeman on Radio New Zealand’s Arts on Sunday<\/em> programme.<\/p>\n And I can only say “kudos” to Cassie and Anna for the idea and making it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes, in amongst all the darkness and disaster, it just feels incredibly important to celebrate some of the fun and\/or good stuff happening. So here’s a few things going on right now: I currently have a guest post, The Grand Symbiosis: Fantasy & History featured on the Orbit blog. (Orbit is my UK\/AU\/NZ publisher and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-guest-blog-posts","category-short-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}