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Amy V. Borg

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  • Let’s Start Something New

    Let’s Start Something New

    Scribbler, scratcher, new first drafter, how does your garden grow?

    February 22, 2024
    creative writing, gathering ideas, ideas for writing, inspiration, writing, writing exercises, writing life, writing practice, writing tips
  • Islands of Healing and Isolation

    Islands of Healing and Isolation

    When does the healing power of isolation become a punishment? As I write this, the sun is setting beyond the storm clouds of the Med. The sea is shadowed, restless and insistent — if I lean just right through my sickroom window, I can see it, the narrowest glimpse of the shore, the sea tearing…

    February 8, 2024
    amwriting, fantasy writing, feminism, illness, island life, magic, memories, personal update, recovery, the Verse, writing, writing life
  • Deathsong | Prologue

    Before In the mornings, when the mistblooms brushed their lazy vines against her window and spread their leaves to catch the sun, she could look out from the highest tower of the House of Doors and see all of it spread out below her: the placid lagoon and the shedding trees and the steep, stone…

    January 29, 2024
    fantasy writing, sneak peek, the Verse, writing
  • Are You Taking Your Writing Seriously?

    Are You Taking Your Writing Seriously?

    Until we decide to take our writing seriously, it remains all too easy to dismiss our words…

    January 23, 2024
    amwriting, authors, creative writing, writing, writing intent, writing seriously, writing with purpose
  • A Year of Stories

    A Year of Stories

    It’s time for a new beginning. Here’s to many more…

    January 1, 2024
    amwriting, creative writing, life update, memories, new year, personal update, short stories, writing, writing life
  • Where Do You Find the Joy?

    Where Do You Find the Joy?

    When life gets hectic, it can be hard to trust the process…

    December 24, 2023
    amwriting, creative writing, joy, life update, Newsletter, personal update, the Venture, The Writing Desk, writing, writing life, writing process
  • The Wintertree

    The Wintertree

    An exclusive prequel short story from the world of The Ravenscourt Tragedies for subscribers to my webfiction.

    December 21, 2023
    amwriting, creative writing, fantasy writing, free story, gaslamp fantasy, short story, The Ravenscourt Tragedies, writing
  • We Are Made to Bloom

    We Are Made to Bloom

    And then there are the drifters, the wanderers, the ones that float away on wind and water… a fantasy short story.

    August 24, 2023
    amwriting, creative writing, diaspora fiction, fantasy fiction, fantasy story, fantasy writing, forest, read online, short fiction, the Verse, writing
  • The Place between Stories…

    The Place between Stories…

    What do you do when you end up lost between projects, books, stories, other worlds? Latest Writing News I’m thrilled to announce that I was awarded Editor’s Choice in the 2022 CNF Award by CRAFT Literary. My short memoir, “All the Pretty Little Lies” will be published on CRAFT’s website on June 9th. Also keep…

    May 26, 2023
    creative writing, memories, personal update, writing, writing life
  • All the Pretty Little Lies

    All the Pretty Little Lies

    The story I tell goes something like this… A short memoir about memory and mental health, awarded Editors’ Choice in CRAFT’s CNF Prize, 2022.

    May 14, 2023
    amwriting, creative writing, depression, hospitalization, life writing, memoir, memories, mental health, mental illness, NYU, suicide, trigger warnings, writing
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Amy currently writes from a desk in Nottingham, England. For queries and rights info, please contact her agent, Sara O’Keeffe.

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