Author, poet, speaker & defiantly disabled, chronic illness gal. Old punk cat mum, Hastings UK. Equality. Loathe fascists. Open to work offers and guest slots

Hastings, East Sussex
Joined March 2009
Bouncy after Sunday’s world premier of the D-Punk film, at London’s BFI. Great to share a platform with such talent. boosted to finish the novel. Hint: Even among the dead, the disabled face barriers… #WriterLife #DisabledLife #Criplit  #WritersWednesday #WIPWednesday
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Glad to be on #AccessSocialCare State of Our Nation podcast. My history, disability rights, how lack of representation & disabled storytelling affects/blocks progress. Expect cheeky. #ThoughtfulThursday #DisabledLife #WriterLife #Representation #SocialCare accesscharity.org.uk/news-bl…
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Sorry for the silence. Took a break to enjoy writing. Then a happy return to #spokenword supporting Roger McGough no less at Hastings Book Festival Maybe fate? The gods? But accessible doors opened, gifting me love as a writer/poet/performer #WriterLife #DisabledLife
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Big thanks this #IndependentBookshopWeek to locals – here’s me outside my nearest #IndieBookshop the lovely @Bookkeeper1066 – appreciate them stocking my books. Happy to supply to indies – just ask. Keep the love going, everyone! #IBW2026 #FollowFriday #WriterLife #DisabledLife
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Monday motivation-latest Substack tease: ‘There I was, anti-establishment Penny with the Queen of England, with the King meeting and greeting in the background #WriterLife #CripLit #BritishRoyals #MondayMotivation pennypepper.substack.com/p/a…
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More hypocrisy from Labour. Didn't we know it when we did #WeDemand in July 2024? We threatened to watch, and we were right to. But it doesn't make fighting back easier. #disabilityrights #writerlife #disabled activist
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Chapter near ending, But hesitation tangles Like broken branches. Stop. Start. Pause. Rewrite? The point of view side shifting – New flowers to bloom? It hovers, held up Between logic and instinct – Let this seed flourish! #WriterLife #DisabledLife #Haiku #WritersWednesday #WIP
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Shocker! Oldie rebel punk meets #QueenConsort ?! Not ever did I imagine I’d meet a member of the #RoyalFamily! There representing writers #royalliteraryfund at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. Surreal but good to push the #UntoldStory #WriterLife #FollowFriday #DisabledLife
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Recovering from a car crash, healing slo-mo on new poetry pamphlet. Often obsessed with collared doves, singing in April breezes. But my work isn’t all birds & weather, you know me. There’s rants, political & pissy tales too #WriterLife #WIPWednesday #CripLit #WritersWednesday
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Was victim of a car crash 10 ago. In pain, not quite myself. Emerging from woeful into hopeful. Gently. Endless emotions to draw on for writing. Poetry may suit? That’s my motivation today. Pic of happier days. #MondayMotivation #WriterLife #Recovery #WritersCommunity #CripLit
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I take a pen and write some words To tell the stories I never found. Of poor kids, crip kids, kicking out. Where girls fly free and save the world. Adventures made for everyone. This is the world I’ll make in books Bookworm #InternationalChildrensBookDay #WorldAutismAwarenessDay
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No flowers, no love for the #AprilFoolsDay #April foolish poet? 🏵️🌞🐣😘 #writerlife #disabledauthor #poetrycommunity
April Fool adventurers, kicking off springy month with a sequence of haiku.  April Fools, spring rain. Politicians ranting loud. Me, I watch the sparrow. Clocks now gone forward, Lighter evenings at last. Can moods be lifted? #AprilFools #WriterLife #GlobalWarming #BlackCats
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April Fool adventurers, kicking off springy month with a sequence of haiku.  April Fools, spring rain. Politicians ranting loud. Me, I watch the sparrow. Clocks now gone forward, Lighter evenings at last. Can moods be lifted? #AprilFools #WriterLife #GlobalWarming #BlackCats
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Share & share. NO TO FASCISM. NO TO REFORM. #NoFascism #Disabledpeopleagainstreform
#DisabledPeopleAgainstFascism Disabled people are out on the march for @UKTogetherAll in central london now 📢Deaf And Disabled People Against Fascism 📢
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Could it be from you great-great-grandad Tom O’Keefe, why stories kiss me? Great-Great Nan, Cork born. Mary O’Callaghan unmarried Fled the Hunger. Sailed to Liverpool, Lost God in London City. My genes still write loud. #StPatricksDay #DisabledWriter #WriterLife #IrishHeritage
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