Elizabeth Baines

To Taurus bar last night for a leaving drink for Cathy Bolton, Commonword 's innovative and inspirational publisher, who will be sorely ...

Manchester Bitch-Lit event last night and Waterstone's packed out for it. This time I wasn't performing, but could sit back and enj...

When you're doing a reading, always turn up early. Yeah, right. Bitch-Lit reading in Sheffield yesterday evening. 7.30 start, plan to g...

Yesterday I went to the talk by Murat Belge in St Ann's Church - an event I found quite mind-blowing, and which I've written about o...

What do you do when your relatives decide to come to one of your readings? Bite the bullet, I guess: thank the lord they support you in your...

Forget your posh pens or your slick laptops: a writer's best equipment is a damned good sense of humour. Yesterday we kicked off the Bit...

Since writers are so often called on to read their work out loud, it's worth learning to do this well. It shouldn't matter, but it d...

Rehearsal today at Manchester's Green Room for the Bitch Lit tour (to Ilkley, Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle, York, Leeds and London)...

That fabulous woman Cathy Bolton at Commonword has done a sterling job on the Bitch-Lit anthology (Crocus Books), due out in September and ...