Silja Swaby, half Jamaican, half Finnish, is a marine biologist and author. Funded by Arts Council England, she has won competitions, and been placed in prizes and awards. She is working on a series of futuristic thrillers, featuring a female biologist whose quiet academic life takes a drastic turn. Silja has taken creative writing courses at Cambridge University and more recently Yale University, USA.

Silja tutors writers, gives workshops, and provides a critique service. She is happily unmarried and lives in deepest Somerset, UK.


Silja Swaby is pronounced Sil-yah Sway-bee.

June 21, 2013

LITHA - The Longest Day

Litha Greetings to all those who follow a nature based spiritual path. Loving nature, the past and feeling comfortable adopting the rites and rituals that totally suit you is what it's about. Dangerous stuff - a spiritualism that need not have hierarchy or doctrines - if you don't want it to. Interesting that on Radio 4 Today programme, the Christian church have admitted to trying to recruit 'pagans' to their ways by going to events like the Summer Solstice and reading tarot cards etc. They miss the point, wholly and completely, and should look to boost their failing membership elsewhere.

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