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Writers Abroad radio show 29 - Douglas John McLean Cairns, poet no longer afraid to be himself

As DJMC he is a role model for all those corporate beings who dare not admit they are musicians, sportsmen, writers, artists, ADD, or somehow not simply men or women in suits. Always and everywhere, he is now himself, still a poet, still a very funny man but now an inspiration to us all. [...]

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Coming clean

In October, as you know, I went to the WIN conference in Rome. I love this event so much that I have attended nine times in the fourteen years it has been going. I wrote about this year’s experience for Andrea over at ExpatWomen, and it was published yesterday. To find out what WIN meant to us all this year, please take a look at my article. And if you want to see more evidence of what goes on then you need to see my posts about Where Words Meet Art and The Importance of Art [...]

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Pain proves we are alive

my students and mentees struggle with the concept of writing about their darkest hours. I believe that is in those darkest hours that your best writing will be found. It is there, in amongst the skeletons in your closet, that you will discover your greatest insights, your truth and, alongside, the elements of your story that will resonate with with [...]

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Do you hide behind words?

I hide behind words.
I make them dance and sing
so I don’t have to.
I make them cry,
so I don’t have [...]

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