Lyndsay Wheble

Hi, I’m Lyndsay. I’m currently working on a novel about motherhood. My fiction and memoir have been published in The Mechanic’s Institute Review, Litro, Spoonfeed, NEWMAG, as part of XR’s Writer’s Rebel series, and elsewhere.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Selected work (7 publications)

The Mechanics' Institute Review (Birkbeck, University of London), 2021

Foxgloves'Is drinking your first alcoholic drink in two years the traditional way to celebrate your daughter’s first birthday, I wondered. My parents were encouraging me to order from the wine list, so that they could too...'

Belle Ombre, 2019

Sea Shanty'Today I scrubbed my hands clean until they were red and swollen with anguish and small dots of red blood prickled across my knuckles...' This story was originally published in the now-defunct lit mag, The Bicycle Review, in 2012.

Extinction Rebellion's Writers Rebel series, 2021

Some Things Are Not Nothing'People joked about global warming, but I thought, why not enjoy it? The sunshine made me itch for the beach, for a road-trip with my besties, but alas, no, they were all in places like Coventry...' This story was also broadcast on BBC radio.

The Elements of Story'Back Story The first time that I wrote something, I was in Japan, eating an egg that I’d hard- boiled in a Hello Kitty kettle with Engrish faux-proverbs all over the side...' A hybrid essay, combining writing advice and memoir.

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