Tonight I attended the York St John Student Writing Showcase and I was very impressed at the poetry and prose of students across all years. Nuala Casey spoke at this event, a woman whose works I have become very aware of in this semester. She previously took a lecture for my Writing to Order module and I found her début novel Soho, 4 A.M absolutely fascinating. When reading this novel I presumed the author was closely linked to the character Stella. Which tonight revealed this presumption to be true. I learnt that Nuala had bulimia in the past, I found this revelation highly interesting because so many authors who write about eating disorders in fiction have actual first hand experience of one. Upon hearing this I decided to write a poetry collection about my complex relationship with food.
