It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy