Step one: admit that you have it. Look at the block in your head, familiarise yourself with it. Study it, examine it, and take stock of what is stopping […]
Slime
Authors Note: before you read Slime, read its predecessors! Hydraulic Press and Industrial Shredder It’s no gone too far. No yet anywey. A’ll tell ye when hings have gone too […]
Our wee flat
On the second Friday of February this year, my boyfriend Matthew and I got the keys to our first ever place together! It was something we’d been planning for a […]
2019 Book 3 | the Long Drop
I just finished ‘the Long Drop’ by Denise Mina and I really loved it! This book focusses on the story of real life 50’s serial killer Peter Manuel and […]
hol7ly.co.uk is one year old!
On February 3rd 2018, my new blog went live! Hol7ly.co.uk came alive when I was in second year of university and wanted to get back into doing journalism-y things, […]
the first thing i know about journalism
I studied journalism for two years and I study it still at university and the whole experience over the past five years has been a…mixed bag. The past five years, […]
Grass
In a world where traditional superpowers did not exist, Mani knew he was special. No one in his world possessed super strength, or had the ability to take to […]
2019 Book 2 | Heart of Darkness
Part of studying modern literature and twentieth century texts involves reading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for me, but I couldn’t even finish it. When I’ve got so many […]
2019 Book 1 | ‘No Mean City’
Every time I brought out my copy of ‘No Mean City’ around my partners gran, she would remark that the book gave Glasgow a bad name, and I can see […]
The Best Damn Cookies I Ever Did Bake
Baking tasty treats for my friends and peers is my chief source of confidence and self-esteem, so the fact that I make pretty shit cookies is a big let-down for […]