Clare Elstow

Clare has written extensively for TV, but has now embarked on a novel, and particularly enjoys exploring different genres through short stories and flash fiction. She also writes poetry and is interested in the overlap with prose and breaking down the boundaries between the two. Enhancing words with music is another key interest and Clare has toured with performance poet John Hegley, accompanying him on keyboards

  • Under the Tree

    She wasn’t sure how it had happened but sneaking a peek – and a slurp – of the liqueur chocolates probably hadn’t helped. She’d lost her balance somehow and now here she was, looking up at the ceiling through a lattice of pine branches, punctuated by coloured lights and many glittering baubles. It was such…