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Having the difficult conversations brings us closer together Ever since I’ve known I’d be permanently childless, friends have been wary when announcing pregnancies. I’ve had conversations which should be happy and joyful begin with, “I was so scared to tell you this…” which makes me feel like

Childlessness is a palette, not a spectrum According to mainstream society, we can use several labels to describe our parental status. We can be childless; usually not a choice and as a result of circumstance or infertility. We can be childfree; usually a choice or often described as a default

Before I found the childless community in 2021, a couple of years after making the decision to stop trying to have a baby, I didn’t know there were words for women like me. I didn’t know that my grief was disenfranchised. A grief not recognised by wider society

It was my first (adult) failure as a writer. I started Beth Kempton’s free Winter Writing Sanctuary course and quit after the first day. But it was a failure that would change the trajectory of my writing life. Winter 2022: My dad had died the year before and I