Happy solar eclipse from Queen’s University Belfast
Happy solar eclipse! The Lanyon building at Queen’s University Belfast was packed at 7.08pm tonight for the 93% eclipse. I managed to see it for a few seconds before the clouds rolled in… and a spooky face appeared too. Don’t you love pareidolia? It’s certainly fuel for creative writing.
The next eclipse won’t be til 2090 with this kind of coverage, and since I’ll likely be a ghost by then, I’m glad I saw it tonight with my eclipse glasses.
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 