Happy International Women’s Day 2023! Today is the day to celebrate social, economic, political and cultural achievements by women.
With my short story collection, Diabolical Dreamscapes, forthcoming in less than a month, it’s a good day to share a video reading of my back cover blurb. Since the theme for today is innovation and technology for gender equality to meet the needs of girls and women, I suppose a video reading is a suitable promotion.
Hope you enjoy listening to the blurb. I’ll be posting more videos soon with excerpts from some of the stories, so stay tuned!
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
Leilanie Stewart 