Are stories magnetic? First look at the cover of my new novel!

Preorders available now + how my cover artwork found me

Jun 2 • Holly Ringland

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May 2026

My third novel is written – and here is the blurb!

After months away, I'm back with the story of finishing, the publication date, and the first reveal of Maggie Byrd's world.

May 8 • Holly Ringland

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February 2026

A Brontë Fix: Holly on Haworth, Writing and Keeper the Dog

Listen to Holly’s Brontë Parsonage podcast interview, featuring a new poem inspired by Emily Brontë’s beloved dog.

Feb 11 • Alice Wood

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January 2026

Holly chats with Jess Rowe on giving ourselves permission to create

Listen now to their joyful conversation about imagination, and the pleasure and power of letting ourselves return to our creativity.

Jan 21 • Alice Wood

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December 2025

When December is too much

Listen now | A Notes to Self episode on Christmas, contradiction, creative tenderness, and taking a pause to finish my third novel

Dec 13, 2025 • Holly Ringland

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November 2025

Every creative life needs witnesses

Listen now | On not being a self-isolating dick (in creativity or life)

Nov 17, 2025 • Holly Ringland

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October 2025

The joy we want is inside the thing we're afraid to make

And allow yourself to find and feel joy in the process

Oct 25, 2025 • Holly Ringland

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First look: my Build Your House of Joy card deck is coming!

Publication news!

Oct 15, 2025 • Holly Ringland

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September 2025

What's in my coping kit this September

Soul-sustaining telly, walking as ritual, tiny notebooks, honouring my past self in her past shit storms, and the small things that do the heart good.

Sep 24, 2025 • Holly Ringland

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A broken shell can hold a whole story: my new poem after Mary Oliver, on her birthday

An iridescent shell on my desk, and news of my upcoming fundraising event with the resplendent Julia Baird.

Sep 13, 2025 • Holly Ringland

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Creativity is a market of seasons: we simply cannot bloom all year round

A Notes to Self episode on creative surrender, and honouring whichever season our imaginations are in.

Sep 4, 2025 • Holly Ringland

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August 2025

The poem that came while I was cleaning, and broke my decade-long poetry-writing drought

On tending the sparks we almost miss, and answering the quiet call of what longs to be.

Aug 30, 2025 • Holly Ringland

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