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About ASWilliams

Angela has dual nationality, GB/NL and lives in Nijmegen. She has had short fiction published on multiple platforms and was a runner-up in the 2018 and 2017 Casket of Fictional Delights Flash Competitions. Her writing has also been published and performed by amongst others: Mslexia, Liars’ League, Reflex Fiction, the Casket and Reckon Review. In 2020 she published her short story collection, Healer, under pseudonym, Susan Carey. Tweets at @su_carey In 2025 she published her poetry collection, The Palliative Horse.

The Bookworm that Turned into a Starfish!

Posted on June 23, 2016 by ASWilliams

Writers are often introverts, happy in our own company and communing with imaginary characters. You can find us sitting at our computers, engrossed in a book, making notes, lost in thought. These introverted activities often go hand-in-hand with a hunched-over, … Continue reading →

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Oh, to be in England now that Spring is here;

Posted on May 29, 2016 by ASWilliams

Well, I was in England and Wales too; for over three weeks. Horse and house-sitting in the beautiful county of N. Shropshire, near Oswestry, which is very near the border into north Wales. It was our privilege and pleasure to look … Continue reading →

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Writers Abroad Magazine 4th Issue Published Today

Posted on May 18, 2016 by ASWilliams

Very proud to be a contributor to our wonderful free magazine. I have a poem about the sculptor, Barbara Hepworth’s garden and also an interview with author Bev Jackson in this issue. Put your feet up and read some fabulous … Continue reading →

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Horses and Hermès. A marriage made in Amsterdam

Posted on April 7, 2016 by ASWilliams

Exclusive French fashion label, Hermès don’t advertise very much. Well, it’s all rather vulgar isn’t it, dahlings? Hermès create aspirational fashion and equestrian items that most people can only dream of owning. So when I heard that their travelling artisan … Continue reading →

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Peter Pan Publishing

Posted on March 24, 2016 by ASWilliams

I confess to being a bit sniffy about the whole colouring book phenomenon. Probably it can be traced back to a childhood experience when a school ‘friend’ decided my carefully drawn kangaroo would look very much better with a nice … Continue reading →

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A Month with Starfish: Volunteering with refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos

Posted on March 10, 2016 by ASWilliams

At York Festival of Writing last year, I was fortunate enough to meet inspiring writers from all over the world and one of them, Bev Jackson also lives in Amsterdam! We stayed in touch and I’m delighted to share the … Continue reading →

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A Taste of Home at the #MercatorMarkt #geefomdejaneef

Posted on February 27, 2016 by ASWilliams

Geef om de Jan Eef is a unique organisation which unites residents and local shopkeepers in a bid to improve the safety and prosperity of the Jan Evertsenstraat. The Jan Evertsenstraat crosses Amsterdam neighbourhoods, West and Nieuw West. In the … Continue reading →

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Winner of #Mslexia Flash Fiction!

Posted on February 15, 2016 by ASWilliams

I am very chuffed to let you know that I won the Little Ms competition for a story of hundred words or fewer, prompted by a picture. Mslexia is a quarterly magazine aimed at women writers, and included in the … Continue reading →

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The Olympic Flame Burned First in Amsterdam

Posted on January 31, 2016 by ASWilliams

“OS-Amsterdam” by Arch – Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons. Eighty Eight Years Ago This year the Olympics will be in Rio, but it was 1928 when the Netherlands had the pleasure of hosting the Olympic Games. The … Continue reading →

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Get Ready for a New Year’s Bash!

Posted on January 4, 2016 by ASWilliams

We all want to create or experience characters that come off the page, don’t we. Portability is the phenomenon by which fictional characters manage to exist outside the text of their original literary setting. Freed and animated by public imagination … Continue reading →

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