
inspiration
By Jo Parfitt, on May 27th, 2009
Next week, Kiwi actress, storyteller, playwright and inspirer extraordinaire comes to The Hague with her unique set of plays to entertain us. As a writer and word lover I was delighted to hear about Letteracy. This play, devised, written and performed by Tanya has been created in praise of letter-writing. Don’t miss it. Please.
Tanya is [...]

books
By Jo Parfitt, on September 3rd, 2008
In need of an inspiration injection? Then check out the American School Fall brochure. Workshops range from learning to massage, do Reiki or become more spiritual, to golf, bellydance, language, cookery, arts and crafts and even day trips of Dutch cities.
Download the brochure, here. You’ll find it just below the PTA Services headline. Oh, and [...]

inspiration
By Jo Parfitt, on July 9th, 2008
I always like to keep my ex-students fed with idea for markets for their writing and in the last two weeks it seems that many new ideas are coming my way.
Take Women Unlimited, an online magazine for female entrepreneurs led by Julie Hall, who says she is looking for the following:
I am looking for [...]

expatriate stuff
By Jo Parfitt, on July 2nd, 2008
Kim Chandler of Xpatriate Magazine just told me about this cool, free site, where sources who would like to help a reporter out and be quoted in an article can sign up and receive emails about opportunities to help a reporter out. Now, this is a cool thing to do if you need to build [...]

expatriate stuff
By Jo Parfitt, on June 5th, 2008
Last month I was in Dubai and led just a two hour workshop for writers, which I called Pitch Perfect. One of those students was Kristina Aaronson, and today, her first piece is published in the Weekly Telegraph. That really is amazingly quick. To make the pitch, sell it and for it to appear [...]