Hayley Gullen
@hayleygullen.com
“This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story” is available to buy now! https://linktr.ee/ThisMightSurpriseYou
Rep: Julia Silk at Greyhound Literary.
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www.hayleygullen.com
Rep: Julia Silk at Greyhound Literary.
insta: HayleyGullen
www.hayleygullen.com
I’m feeling Christmassy!
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I’m feeling Christmassy!
But the great thing about digital art is that once I’ve drawn the pattern, I can reuse it and do cool things with it.
The Picts didn’t have clipping masks.
The Picts didn’t have clipping masks.
December 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
But the great thing about digital art is that once I’ve drawn the pattern, I can reuse it and do cool things with it.
The Picts didn’t have clipping masks.
The Picts didn’t have clipping masks.
Been learning how to draw Celtic knotwork. This is a key pattern inspired by the Nigg stone (I’m using the guide in the George Bain book)
These are challenging. I have respect for those stone carvers and manuscript illuminators who couldn’t tap the screen to undo.
These are challenging. I have respect for those stone carvers and manuscript illuminators who couldn’t tap the screen to undo.
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Been learning how to draw Celtic knotwork. This is a key pattern inspired by the Nigg stone (I’m using the guide in the George Bain book)
These are challenging. I have respect for those stone carvers and manuscript illuminators who couldn’t tap the screen to undo.
These are challenging. I have respect for those stone carvers and manuscript illuminators who couldn’t tap the screen to undo.
I’m being interviewed about my book tomorrow on Talk Radio Europe (English language radio station in Spain).
Tune in at 1.25pm GMT if you want to hear it!
#cansky
Tune in at 1.25pm GMT if you want to hear it!
#cansky
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I’m being interviewed about my book tomorrow on Talk Radio Europe (English language radio station in Spain).
Tune in at 1.25pm GMT if you want to hear it!
#cansky
Tune in at 1.25pm GMT if you want to hear it!
#cansky
I’m very happy to keep talking about cancer, but…
I don’t want to be talking about cancer forever.
Crazy, I know!
I don’t want to be talking about cancer forever.
Crazy, I know!
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I’m very happy to keep talking about cancer, but…
I don’t want to be talking about cancer forever.
Crazy, I know!
I don’t want to be talking about cancer forever.
Crazy, I know!
My WIP is about Pictish symbol stones and modern international politics/misinformation.
(It’ll make sense eventually.)
Still early days but one of the big challenges is drawing Celtic knotwork. Every single pattern has to be learned from scratch.
Still, I’m pretty excited about it.
(It’ll make sense eventually.)
Still early days but one of the big challenges is drawing Celtic knotwork. Every single pattern has to be learned from scratch.
Still, I’m pretty excited about it.
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My WIP is about Pictish symbol stones and modern international politics/misinformation.
(It’ll make sense eventually.)
Still early days but one of the big challenges is drawing Celtic knotwork. Every single pattern has to be learned from scratch.
Still, I’m pretty excited about it.
(It’ll make sense eventually.)
Still early days but one of the big challenges is drawing Celtic knotwork. Every single pattern has to be learned from scratch.
Still, I’m pretty excited about it.
It’s not trivial at all. It’s the most important thing. It’s a critical part of the healing process: to feel like a person who is seen by and connected to other people.
6/7
6/7
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It’s not trivial at all. It’s the most important thing. It’s a critical part of the healing process: to feel like a person who is seen by and connected to other people.
6/7
6/7
From my WIP.
What more can any of us ask for, really?
What more can any of us ask for, really?
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
From my WIP.
What more can any of us ask for, really?
What more can any of us ask for, really?
The idea of “playing the cancer card” is a useful one but it can’t give you full diplomatic immunity.
4/4
4/4
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The idea of “playing the cancer card” is a useful one but it can’t give you full diplomatic immunity.
4/4
4/4
I want to be seen as a full human being, which means I need to ask my friends and family to keep calling me out on my bullshit.
1/4
#cansky
1/4
#cansky
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I want to be seen as a full human being, which means I need to ask my friends and family to keep calling me out on my bullshit.
1/4
#cansky
1/4
#cansky
Yes, my book is available in Canada too!
November 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Yes, my book is available in Canada too!
You can call me “brave” for sharing my story too, if you like. But creating this book felt as inevitable to me as the ordeals of cancer treatment. Strange, but true.
4/5
4/5
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
You can call me “brave” for sharing my story too, if you like. But creating this book felt as inevitable to me as the ordeals of cancer treatment. Strange, but true.
4/5
4/5
I appreciated being called brave if I felt the person genuinely meant it and wasn’t just saying it to distance themselves. It still doesn’t feel like the right word, though. How can one be “brave” when simply reacting to a dreadful situation?
2/5
2/5
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I appreciated being called brave if I felt the person genuinely meant it and wasn’t just saying it to distance themselves. It still doesn’t feel like the right word, though. How can one be “brave” when simply reacting to a dreadful situation?
2/5
2/5
If only someone had recently published a book that really humanises the impact of bureaucratic malfunctions in the NHS… 😎
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If only someone had recently published a book that really humanises the impact of bureaucratic malfunctions in the NHS… 😎
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-migh...
I very much relate to this.
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I very much relate to this.