Our human understanding of each other amongst all things, is through storytelling.

A.Wilding writes to bear witness to the expansive worlds created of and by authors from everywhere. Exploring works that embrace kinship, identity, philosophy, mythology, magic, geography, love, loss, and most centrally - life, she hopes to create here an ode to words and their incredible power to hold us in true moments of togetherness. Above all else, it is a celebration of authors.

Understanding the weightiness of putting pen to paper leads me to forstall my own creative works with a deep reverence for those who do so, and do so well. Whilst I map out my own story to tell, I hope to share the great many that I have already consumed, pondered over and only occasionally given up on. I promise honesty and a kind word or two.

There is untold joy in the impossibility to read all things.