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 | Chris Fautley
Chris has been a freelance writer and journalist since 1995, prior to which he saw seventeen years service in the banking industry – much of it within the City of London. The first article he sold was Ten Ways to reduce Bank Charges for a small business magazine.
Building on that initial success and his love of heritage and UK travel, he expanded his horizons to see features published in magazines as diverse as Heritage, Best of British and the in-flight magazine of United Airlines. In 2000, he wrote the words accompanying the photographs in the book The Times Britain from Space.
A successful pitch to The Times Educational Supplement marked the beginning of a long relationship and they published more than 100 of his features. That, in turn, has led to work for The Telegraph Magazine, The Times and The Sunday Times. He is also a regular and long-standing contributor – without byline – to a national Sunday broadsheet in which he has written more than 400 articles | |
 | Michelle Higgs
Michelle has been a freelance writer since 1995 when she sold her first article to Best of British. She writes about a wide range of subjects including history and heritage, travel, homes and interiors, education, the environment and children’s reference. Her features and articles have appeared in publications as diverse as BBC History, The Times Educational Supplement, Take a Break and Aquila. She writes a monthly column for Period House.
She is also the author of three non-fiction books: Christmas Cards, Life in the Victorian & Edwardian Workhouse and Prison Life in Victorian England. She is currently working on a fourth book entitled Life in the Victorian Hospital.
Michelle is a qualified teacher and a member of the Society of Authors. Her other interests include the great outdoors, going to the cinema, family history research, watching tennis and reading. | |
 | Louise Marley
Louise Marley worked as a civilian administrator for the police before she became a full-time writer. Her first novel, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, was published after it was shortlisted for Poolbeg's Write A Bestseller Competition - and subsequently it did become an Irish bestseller. She has since had two more romantic suspense novels published and is currently working on her fourth.
Louise also writes short stories and has been published in a variety of women's magazines such as Take a Break (UK) and Woman's Way (Ireland).
She has also written for the Irish national press, including The Irish Daily Star and the now defunct Ireland on Sunday. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association. | |
 | Jan Moran Neil
Jan has been teaching Creative Writing since 1989. She founded Creative Ink for Writers in 2000, providing group tutorials and assessing thousands of words for writers. Many of her students have gone on to be successfully published.
In 1994, she won the BBC Writers' Competition and her short story Death by Pythagoras was broadcast on Radio 4. She then went on to publish her own collection of work Serving Bluebird Pie with many pieces winning local and national competitions.
Jan has worked as a freelance journalist with magazines including Reader's Digest, School Leaver, Mother and Company and currently sources writers and contributes to the regional magazines - Chic Chat and Chiltern Living.
She was a founder member and editor of Rhyme & Reason - the award winning charity anthology - which has raised thousands of pounds for the Iain Rennie Hospice at Home and is regularly invited to judge poetry and short story competitions, most recently for the Chilterns and Middlesex Shows.
Jan trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and National Youth Theatre before teaching Voice at the Dome Theatre in Montreal. She then spent a number of years running her own theatre companies: Ruddles and A-One and later performed at Nottingham Playhouse and Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. She has worked extensively in voice over and radio work and made two short films with Mike Leigh.
In the last couple of years her first play Blackberry Promises was staged on the London Fringe with her theatre company Creative Ink for Actors. Blackberry Promises received outstanding reviews in The Stage and local papers, was voted reviewer's choice for 2003 in the Bucks Free Press and is published by New Theatre Publishing. | |
 | Iona Lister
Iona Lister is an experienced tutor and author. She has written four published self-help books, and is currently writing a further book about post traumatic stress disorder for Writability, a charity. Dozens of her articles and photographs have appeared in publications as diverse as Woman, Family Circle, The Guardian, The Observer, Therapy Weekly, Nursing Times, Bulletin of Medical Ethics and The Samaritan. She has previously worked in the editorial department of a busy London magazine publisher, and as a reviewer of books. She is a postal tutor of non-fiction, short stories, biographies and poetry for members of a national writing charity. Iona also tutors in counselling skills and leads a UK-based book group for people with sight loss. | |
 | Lesley Eames
A career as solicitor, turned event organiser, turned fiction writer, has given Lesley experience of writing in a wide variety of fields from formal contracts and marketing material to newsletters and short stories. She began writing short fiction after seeing a short story competition in a local newspaper. She submitted two entries and won both first and second prizes. Encouraged, she studied the women's magazine market and the first story she submitted for publication was accepted by Woman's Weekly. Since then she has sold more than fifty stories to Woman's Weekly, My Weekly and The People's Friend.
Lesley enjoys helping other writers and has given talks, led workshops and taught creative writing classes. | |
 | Jane Bidder
Jane Bidder (pen name Sophie King) has been a journalist for over 25 years and contributes regularly to national newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph and Woman. She also writes bestselling novels, using the name Sophie King. Her books The School Run and mums@home were published by Hodder & Stoughton.
Jane has had hundreds of short stories published in magazines such as Woman's Weekly and My Weekly as well as non-fiction books for both adults and children. She tutors in creative writing and has also led several writing workshops.
Jane, who was the winner of the Elizabeth Goudge Short Story Trophy in 2005, as well as a runner-up in the Harry Bowling Prize, has appeared on breakfast television and radio including Woman's Hour. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association; Women in Journalism; the Society of Women Writers and Journalists and the National Union of Journalists. | |
 | Ken Ashton
Ken Ashton is an award-winning journalist and writer who started writing as a child and has never stopped. He worked in the newspaper industry for many years, being a staff reporter on weekly, evening and daily newspapers, and has also been an editor and sub-editor.
Ken has been teaching all forms of writing for the past twenty. An accomplished tutor and writer, he has had short stories published and has helped many writers to publishing success.
His other interests include music - he plays digital piano - and photography. Writing is in Ken's family. His wife is a former newspaper editor and now a tutor, and his daughter is a media manager for a major tourism attraction. | |
 | Margaret Skipworth
Margaret started her writing career over 30 years ago as a newspaper reporter. After sixteen years in provincial journalism - as a writer, sub-editor, editor of a weekly paper and deputy features editor of an evening newspaper - she became a freelance writer and editor.
Since starting to write fiction in 1995, her short stories have been published in Woman's Weekly, The People's Friend, My Weekly, That's Life!, Fast Fiction (Australia) and on the Internet. She has won prizes in many UK and international competitions for short stories and essays.
In 1999, she won Writing Magazine's Tenth Anniversary Competition 'The Spirit of Loch Ness'.
Margaret also enjoys writing for children and has recently completed a fantasy novel for seven-to-nine year-olds and a picture book. She is currently doing research on aviator Amelia Earhart for a non-fiction book.
She is a member of the Association of Christian Writers. | |
 | Marie O'Regan
Marie O’Regan has had short fiction published in the US, UK, Italy and Germany, and has had articles published in both genre and non-genre magazines. The first short story she had published in print (‘Alsiso’, The Alsiso Project anthology, Elastic Press) was recommended for the British Fantasy Society ‘Best Short Story’ Award for 2004, and her 2005 story ‘Can You See Me?’ (Midnight Street Issue 5) was short listed for the same award in 2006. Her first collection of short fiction, Mirror Mere, was published by Rainfall Books early in 2006, as was a non-fiction essay on horror film ‘The Changeling’ in Cinema Macabre by PS Publishing. She is currently working on the final draft of her first novel, Icon, as well as the early stages of her next non-fiction project. Marie also writes screenplays, one of which is currently under consideration by a UK director.
As well as writing, Marie edited the magazine Dark Horizons for two years, the British Fantasy Society newsletter Prism for a year before that and is currently serving as Chairperson of the British Fantasy Society, working on projects alongside such authors as Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, John Connolly, and many more. She also runs Creative Writing Workshops with her fiancé, author Paul Kane, and proofreads and typesets books for a number of independent publishers. | |
 | Elizabeth Ashworth
Elizabeth Ashworth has been a freelance writer for over 25 years after selling her first article, about the Spanish Riding School, to Diana at the age of eleven. She is a regular contributor to Lancashire Magazine and has had articles and short stories published in a wide range of national magazines and newspapers including The Lady, My Weekly, The People's Friend, Take a Break Fiction Feast and many others.
She is a qualified teacher with many years' experience teaching both children and adults. She has lectured in creative writing at a local college, as well as conducting writing workshops for adults and children.
Her book Champion Lancastrians was published by Sigma Press last year and her latest book, Tales of Old Lancashire is published by Countryside Books. She is currently working on a new historical novel The de Lacy Inheritance.
She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Society for Women Writers and Journalists, the National Association of Writers in Education, and is the Chairman of the Lancashire Authors' Association. | |
 | Morgan Kenney
Morgan Kenney was publisher and editor of a British magazine for writers and then poetry editor for the same publication. He writes columns on poetry and lectures at writing conferences. He has been keynote speaker at Swanwick Summer School and has presented the poetry course there. He has also conducted writing seminars at Swanwick. Morgan judges short story and poetry competitions. His poetry is widely published and Headland has published a collection of his works.
He is founder of the Petra Kenney Poetry Competition. Its awards day is described as ‘one of the most prestigious events on London’s literary calendar’. Morgan is a Canadian who has now lived in England for many years. His career in Canada was in education, and he produced three major language programmes comprising some 40 books. He is experienced as a theatre director, and his play for children was professionally produced in Toronto and went on tour. He is widely travelled. | |
 | Mary Charman-Smith
Mary is very experienced, both as a teacher and a writer. She currently works as a teacher and is qualified to teach post-sixteens. She teaches Creative Writing at Adult Education classes.
Mary has had poems published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies and also placed in competitions. In 2004 she passed the creative writing MA at University College, Chichester, submitting poetry for the dissertation. Doing this course caused her to look critically at creative writing and she prides herself on giving good constructive criticism to students. Many of her own poems are about the countryside and the natural world, but she is able to give good criticism on all topics and styles of this genre. | |
 | Sue Johnson
Sue has been successful in national short story competitions and her stories have also been published in Woman, My Weekly, Woman’s Weekly and Chat – It’s Fate. Her second novel is currently with an agent.
Sue is an experienced teacher and workshop leader. She has taught creative writing and art for several colleges and for those who are mentally ill as well as setting up her own classes locally. She is a speaker at literary festivals and gives talks to writing groups. She enjoys proofreading and critiquing work and is thrilled when her students achieve publication. | |
 | Valerie Loh
Valerie writes historical adventures which are being printed by DC Thomson for their My Weekly Story Collection. Her work is available in large print by Ulverscroft or through libraries under her pseudonym, Valerie Holmes.
She is a member of the Society of Authors, Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Historical Novel Society. She reviews both adult and children’s books for the HNS. In 2002 Valerie won the David St John Thomas Charitable Trust’s Annual Ghost Story Competition with her entry Three Squashed Pumpkins. | |
 | Lynne Hackles
Lynne has had several hundred short stories published, in publications such as Take a Break, Fiction Feast, My Weekly, The People’s Friend, Bella, Best and Woman and in Australia in Woman’s Day, New Idea and That’s Life! Fast Fiction.
Her first published book, Racing Start, was a novel for young adults. She has also been a ghost writer and has also written extensively for children’s comics. One of her stories was included in a collection published by Heinemann.
Lynne’s other writing experience has included writing for greetings cards and advertisements and she has recently completed her first adult novel. Her Handy Little Book For Writers is published by NAWG (National Association of Writers’ Groups) and she also writes regular columns for Writing Magazine.
Lynne has taught creative writing for several colleges, festivals and writers’ holidays and derives great pleasure from the success of her students. | |
 | Stuart Palmer
Stuart's writing has covered a broad spectrum of fields including articles, contemporary fiction, humor, satire, science fiction, fantasy, horror and romance, with work published in both Britain and America, in magazines, books and on the Internet.
He has designed the concept and scenario for a successful and highly regarded science fiction computer adventure game produced by one of the country's leading software companies, produced a teachers' pack of articles which was distributed to secondary schools throughout England, and taught writing in the community to sixteen to 25-year olds as an Artlink artworker. He is currently working on a new novel | |
 | Audrey Groom
Audrey has an interesting career as a writer, starting by selling more than 100 children's picture scripts to DC Thomson. She then went on to children's short stories in comics and annuals. She began her adult writing with confession stories and articles, selling about 150 articles to The Lady, My Weekly, Homes and Gardens and Mother and Baby. As well as this, Audrey has had about 250 short stories accepted by My Weekly, The People's Friend and Woman's Weekly. | |
 | Stephanie Baudet
Stephanie has had over twenty books published by Hamish Hamilton, Puffin, Andre Deutsch, Poolbeg, CUP and Hawthorns Publications. During the past few years she has been commissioned to write several Assembly books and historical fiction for Educational Printing Services and Anglia Young Books. She also works as a freelance proofreader and reviews books for Armadillo. | |
 | Diane Paul
Diane has written two non-fiction books and won two book awards. She has an MA in scriptwriting and her most recent play, A Bench in the Park, was showcased in London and produced for radio.
She runs her own editorial consultancy appraising manuscripts and workshops in several writing genres. She writes features for national newspapers and magazines, short stories and has several fiction projects in the process of development. Diane has been a public relations consultant, a senior reporter and page editor of two weekly newspapers, has edited a showbusiness magazine and is a member of the Society of Authors. | |
 | Sue Moorcroft
Sue is well-published in magazine fiction with over 100 stories so far in Woman, Woman's Weekly, The Weekly News, Bella, The People's Friend, Yours, My Weekly, Woman's Day (Aus), Ireland's Own, Fiction Feast, Arabella Romance (USA), Allers (Swe), Allas (Swe) and YOU (SA) and was one of the writers featured in the charity anthology Sexy Shorts for Christmas.
Her first novel, Uphill all the Way and her serial Another Country, for The People's Friend, were published in April/May 2005. A committee member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, Sue has led workshops and spoken on behalf of the RNA. She tutored a short story course at Writer's Holiday, Caerleon, in 2002 and 2005. Sue is a past Katie Fforde Bursary Award winner. | |
 | Doris Corti
Doris is a poet,author and creative writing tutor. Her work has been published by Cassells, Scholastic, Puffin Viking, MacMillan, Hodder & Stoughton and numerous poetry magazines. She is the author of Writing Poetry published by Thomas & Lochar and Successful Grandparenting published by How To Books.
Doris is poetry critic for Writers’ News and Writing Magazine and poetry adviser to The Society of Women Writers and Journalists. She has also been the Poetry Course Leader for such prestigious organisations as Swanwick Summer School, Harlech Writers Conference and Writers Holiday Caerlon. | |
 | Christine Franklin
Christine is very experienced, both as a writer and a tutor. She has been tutoring for the WEA and for Devon County Council for several years. Currently she runs her own local Creative Writing Workshops. Under her pen name of Christina Green she has been widely published in various genres, including full-length novels, both contemporary and historical, books for children, short stories and country-based non-fiction.
Christine’s romantic novels are published by Robert Hale, Hamlyn, Mills & Boon and My Weekly Library and her shorter fiction has appeared in magazines such as My Weekly, Woman’s Own and Woman’s Realm. Her novella The Paradise Garden was published recently by My Weekly Story Collection and her latest novella Lover’s Knot will be published this year. Fourteen of her books have sold in large print, three of them in the USA. She was shortlisted for the Halsgrove/Western Morning News Peninsula Prize 2002. | |
 | Roger Kendall
Roger is a fully qualified teacher and has taught writing for over 30 years to both children and adults. He is also a skilled proofreader. He has researched, scripted and presented programmes for BBC Radio, including documentaries and drama. He has had articles and essays published in various magazines and journals and his poems have won several prizes in poetry competitions, as well as appearing in a number of poetry magazines. | |
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