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A newsletter for misfits and mischief-lovers
May 12
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Alix O'Neill
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Get over yourself and write the thing
Want to finish that novel/land your dream commission? Here's the best advice you're ever going to get...
Jun 5
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‘As soon as you raise the trauma flag, you’re interesting’
An interview with clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Rob Lefort on the trauma industrial complex, victimisation culture and what it really means…
Jan 8
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The age of asshole
Is it time we had a word with ourselves?
Sep 30, 2025
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Does anyone else have a complicated relationship with home?
On raising 'foreign' kids and the myth of national identity
Mar 4
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'If you agree with everything I say you'd be in a cult'
Award-winning journalist and author Polly Vernon on tribalism, Botox and how women can be assholes too, actually.
Jun 22
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My boss-from-hell made me break up with her orthodontist boyfriend
Dude offered to fix my teeth, tho.
May 18
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'How can any person with a brain think liberation can come from oppression and war?'
An interview with Palestinian documentary filmmaker Samaher Alqadi on growing up in a refugee camp, the hypocrisy of Western feminism and the healing…
May 11
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Alix O'Neill
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Dispatches from Southwest France: March and April
Practical jokes, trolls and are male authors okay? (Plus, an update on the Japanese toilet)
Apr 27
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Mums with guns
Why I packed me some heat and went to a shooting range
Apr 20
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A wee bit of news...
My first novel is coming out!
Mar 30
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My Big Fat French January
Onwards.
Feb 12
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