Anita Roy
writer | editor
I am a writer, editor, publisher, storyteller and performer.
Being a bit of a mongrel, a mudblood, a half-and-half, mixed race, betwixt-and-between sort of gal has shaped my outlook, my humour and my writing as much as my skin colour.
On this site you can find over 100 of my published articles – and links to the some of the books that I've either edited or contributed to. Hope you enjoy reading them; let me know what you think.Recently published
Wild Wales
10 October 2018A walk in wild Wales along the Pembrokeshire coastal path involves close encounters with puffins, seals and shearwaters... … [more]
On the Shelf #54 – Travelling and arriving
8 October 2018Imagine life stranded in an airport for 18 years. The strange open-ended true life parable of Sir, Alfred. … [more]
A Year in Kingcombe – September
25 September 2018The whole mists-and-mellow-fruitfulness schtick: the scent of wood smoke, the fungi popping up all over, the crunch of leaves underfoot, the squirrels squirrelling... There’s something about autumn’s inescapable sweet melancholy, the pas de deux of death and life, the decay that presages seedburst, the nourishing of the earth by the leaf-fall from the sky: I just love it. … [more]
A Year in Kingcombe – August
22 September 2018It was, in Thoreau’s lovely phrase, the afternoon of the year. The hills slumbered under the wide blue sky, looking more like Tuscany than Dorset, alternately suntanned and bleached...… [more]
On the Shelf #53 – Life Writing and the Writing Life
10 September 2018Three Morning Pages filled with an ode to a hairbrush, or shopping lists, or in-depth “journalling” — there is a lot that we write on life’s behalf … [more]
Featured articles
Bookless in Bagdad, Shashi Tharoor
27 February 2005Q: Lay a lot of columns end to end and what do you get? A: A lot of columns laid… [more]
On the Shelf #21 – Alan Watts
4 October 2015"Do you mind if I communicate with Alan Watts post-verbally?" Some words - about the man and the myth and his books and his voice. … [more]
Always Take the Weather With You
6 June 2016Walking ’round the room singing Stormy Weather At fifty-seven Mount Pleasant Street Well it’s the same room, but everything’s different… [more]
Eating Baby
22 January 2013Ruminating about the early days of motherhood and the challenges of keeping a new baby well-fed. … [more]
