Belona Greenwood

As I sat in my summer classroom and wrote stories and learned my times tables by rote, I was completely unprepared for what was to come. ...

Books and reading: How do they form us as people and as writers? Some books never leave us, some books shape our consciousness. I think...

I had no idea that remembering would be so visceral - the act of it feels almost physical. I find myself recalling events and sensations...

A memoir about growing up in a working class family and my relationship to writing.