Elizabeth Baines

Here's a great new review of Used to Be in the Wales Arts Review - very insightful in terms of my basic themes and preoccupations. I...

Congratulations to the winners of my anniversary draw, to each of whom a copy of one of my Salt books will be winging its way: Balanci...

How can it be this warm on the 1st October? And in August  in Wales I needed a scarf and gloves! It feels right, though, as 1st October will...

I'm delighted that another of my stories is to be published in the online magazine, East of the Web . If you don't already know East...

Although some of my work has included spooky elements, I don't think I've ever written an out-and-out ghost story before. However, I...

  Congratulations to the winners of the anniversary draw for signed copies of my three Salt books (all published on the same date, 1st O...

I emerged briefly this morning from the deep trance of an intensive writing stint to realise that today, 1st October, is the anniversary of ...

On Saturday I attended the 60th anniversary celebration of Stand Magazine at Leeds University. The origins of Stand are legendary. As curre...

 And here is The Birth Machine on its Fiction shelves. (See why I love it?): I nipped over to Bath from Bristol on Friday. I'd ...

A great thing about the web is the way books can go on getting reviews long after publication. To my delight yesterday, four and a half year...

Last night's one-off New Libertines event was quite fabulous. Organised by Literary Death Match winner and Eight Cuts Gallery impres...

Today is exactly one year since the reissue, in a new edition, of my novel The Birth Machine , and I'm celebrating with a giveaway ...

Catch-up time. After six months of solid writing followed by a summer of immensely enjoyable but distracting family reunions and long period...

The internet is really amazing. The story 'Leaf Memory' is one of the very oldest in Balancing on the Edge of the World . It first a...

I was delighted to be invited by Claire Molinari, Chair of Sheffield's Local & Live Community Theatre , to read and talk yesterda...

Here are the results of the draw made by independent adjudicator John from each of three of our hats: Kate Brown and Mary of the Shorter Sto...

Tomorrow's the 1st October and it's a very special day for me. It's the day that my novel Too Many Magpies will be exactly one ...

Well, that's not worked out perfectly so far: last night I woke up with the realization that I'd left something off the flowchart t...

Horrible weather today - huge winds sweeping the trees outside the house - but it's still a lovely day: in fact my day has been made by...

Welcome to a virtual flashmob timed to happen at exactly the same time (3 pm) as the physical flashmob to celebrate the 10th birthday of ...