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 | Anne Graham
Anne has published short fiction with DC Thomson and humorous articles with Scottish Home and Country. Recently she has won the Tinsel Tales Flash Fiction competition on the internet, in 2008 and 2009, and published on writing matters on the Writelink site.
Anne writes for the theatre as Anne Stenhouse and in 2009 two of her plays were produced by Theatre Broad at The Byre theatre in St Andrews. Her work has appeared in Edinburgh on the Fringe and, at the Monday Lizard, at the Traverse Theatre. She recently extended her field of expertise by writing and delivering an Immortal Memory at a Burns’ Supper. | |
 | Audrey Groom
Audrey has had an interesting career as a writer, starting by selling more than 100 picture scripts for young children to DC Thomson. She then went on to children’s short stories, 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. She has also had 250 short stories accepted by My Weekly, The People’s Friend, Woman’s Weekly and other well known magazines. | |
 | 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. | |
 | Christine Franklin
Christine has written short stories, serials for women's magazines, and a variety of general articles for many years, and has tutored creative writing courses for Devon County Council, The Workers' Educational Association, and privately. Currently, she runs a private professional writing circle. During the last three years she has had two historical romances published by Robert Hale, and a third book is to appear in October this year.
Under her pen name Christina Green, she has also had six romantic novellas published as My Weekly Pocket Novels. She is interested in historical social life and bases most of her stories on researched facts. She reads avidly and 'can't stop writing'. | |
 | Colin Bulman
Colin Bulman works part-time as a teacher of creative writing and journalism and he has also taught English and Media. For some years he has also been a freelance writer, contributing to a variety of newspapers and magazines including The Times, The Sunday Sun, Huddersfield Examiner and Evening Chronicle. He wrote the script for an advertising film, and has contributed to children’s publications in the field of articles and stories, including scripts for picture stories.
He is at present completing a novel and has plans for a work of non-fiction. He has specialised in writing for educational publications and has books on English, Media Studies, and language in print. His last book was Creative Writing: A Guide and Glossary to Fiction Writing (2006). He reviews books regularly for educational publications. | |
 | Diana Cambridge
Diana is an award-winning journalist, who trained as a newspaper reporter from the age of sixteen and was Women’s Editor on provincial daily newspapers. Her published work spans a great many topics, with women’s journalism a key interest but also travel, careers and business, and the craft of writing.
She has written for the Guardian, The Times and many women’s magazines including Prima where she was a staff Features Editor. Awards include a Society of Authors prize: Women’s Writer for Wales title, and an Arvon bursary.
She has been Managing Editor of five varied glossy magazines, including Greece travel magazine and Antiques & Collectibles magazine, and the Iceland supermarket magazine The Mag! Her books include How to get promoted…in 30 minutes (Kogan Page 2000) How to write for magazines…in one weekend (Canal Street Publishing Ltd 2006) and How to write travel articles… in one weekend (Canal Street Publishing Ltd 2007). Diana writes and presents her own radio shows and gives training courses in writing and journalism. She lives in her favourite city, Bath. | |
 | Diane Paul
Diane has been a writer for most of her working life, beginning as editorial assistant on the TV Times.
She 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. She gained an MA in radio/TV scriptwriting from the University of Salford and has run workshops in a wide variety of writing genres, for writers’ circles and in secondary schools.
Diane's last play was showcased by Rocliffe Productions in London and recorded for radio. She has written three books, one of which won two awards from the BMA. She runs her own editorial consultancy for press features and manuscripts appraisals.
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 | Doris Corti
Doris Corti is poetry adviser to the Society of Women Writers’ & Journalists and poetry critic for Writing Magazine and Writers’ News. Her poems and features are included in many poetry presses and she has been included in anthologies published by Cassells, Scholastic, Puffin, MacMillan, Hodder & Stoughton and used by authors as forewords and illustrations in their books. Collections of poetry include The Tumbling Sky (Headland) and Beyond the Skyline (self-published). Her books include Writing Poetry (Thomas & Lochar) and Successful Grandparenting (How to Books Ltd).
Recently her poems have appeared in several poetry magazines, including the prestigious Roundyhouse, Acumen, and Envoi. In 2006 and 2007 she gained third prize and two highly commended places in the Society of Women Writers and Journalists Lady Elizabeth Longford poetry competition.
As well as leading poetry courses, Doris gives readings and organises workshops. She is the leader of a poetry appreciation group for the University of the Third Age. | |
 | Elizabeth Ashworth
Elizabeth has been a published writer since she sold an article, about the Spanish Riding School, to Diana at the age of eleven. This was followed by her first fiction sale to Pony Annual just four years later and since then her work has been published in a wide variety of publications including Lancashire Magazine, Lancashire Life, The Lady, My Weekly, People’s Friend and Take a Break Fiction Feast.
She has written three local interest books:
• Champion Lancastrians, Sigma Press (2006)
• Tales of Old Lancashire, Countryside Books (2007)
• Lancashire: Who Lies Beneath? Countryside Books (2009) which reached number one in Amazon’s bestseller list of books about genealogy. She is currently working on a similar book about Yorkshire for the same publisher.
Her historical novel The de Lacy Inheritance was published by Myrmidon Books in June 2010 and will be followed by another novel By Loyalty Bound. As well as being a qualified teacher of both adults and children, Elizabeth is a member of the Society of Authors, the National Association of Writers in Education, and the Lancashire Authors’ Association.
You can find some samples of her articles and short stories as well as the opening chapter of her novel on her website at www.elizabethashworth.com
She also has a blog about her research at www.elizabethashworth.wordpress.com | |
 | Emma Davies
Emma graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2003 with an MA in Liberal Arts, majoring in English Literature. In her final year, she studied Victorian Literature, Art and Philosophy and completed a work placement in her local library, where she conducted research into the use of the Library Cybercentre.
In 2005, Emma graduated from the University of Paisley with a PGCE in Secondary Education (English). After fifteen months of teaching English in secondary schools, she took up a Project Worker post with the local Council where she collaborated with a small team to write, edit and produce materials for a Workplace Literacies Pack for Employers and Employees, which was published by the Scottish Government.
Emma has had work published in a number of national magazines including Marie Claire, Company, Glamour, SHE, Woman, Guardian Weekend and Mslexia amongst others. She has also had work published on the National Book Tokens website. Emma's key areas of interest are poetry, prose and magazine journalism. | |
 | Jan Moran-Neil
Jan has been teaching Creative Writing since 1989. She founded Creative Ink for Writers in 2000, providing group tutorials and assessing the work of writers, many of whom have gone on to be successfully published.
In 1994, Jan 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 had work published in Reader’s Digest, School Leaver, Mother and Company and has sourced writers and contributed to Chic Chat, Chiltern Living. She currently contributes to Writing Magazine. She was a founder member and editor of Rhyme & Reason, an award-winning charity anthology, and she is a regular judge of poetry and short story competitions.
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. She has worked extensively in voice over and radio work and made two short films with Mike Leigh.
In the last few years her first play, Blackberry Promises, staged on the London Fringe, received outstanding reviews, was voted reviewer’s choice and published by New Theatre Publications. Her second play Brave Hearts & Baggage has been performed to excellent reviews and published by New Theatre Publications. Jan’s third play The Deadly Factor – is about to be performed by Creative Ink for Actors. She is also launching Creative Ink Publishing in the next few months. See Jan’s website at: www.janmoranneil.co.uk | |
 | Jill Campbell
Jill was a police officer for ten years before taking a career break to pursue her academic studies and her passion for writing. She graduated from the University of Chichester in 2006 with a First Class degree in English & Creative Writing. At graduation she was awarded the Philip LeBrun Prize for receiving the highest grades in writing for that year, and her dissertation, which consisted of her own original play and the critical study of a contemporary playwright, was nominated for a literary history prize.
Jill has had both poetry and fiction published and is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester. For her MA dissertation she is working on a novel.
During her degree, Jill not only honed her skills in writing poetry, prose fiction, and drama, but also studied specialised subjects such as American Playwrights, Victorian Literature, English Language, Theory, and Screenwriting.
Jill has a particular interest in prose, ranging from short stories through to novel-length fiction. Having participated regularly over the years in writers’ workshops, and having also worked as an English tutor, she prides herself in being able to offer intelligent, intuitive feedback that is tailored to individual needs. | |
 | John Paxton-Sheriff
John Paxton Sheriff is an experienced tutor who has been writing for more than fifty years. He began during his fifteen years in the British Army, and his first successes came while living in New South Wales and Queensland with his wife and three children (he is now a widower).
His short stories have been published in a now defunct Australian men's magazine, in Australian, UK and Irish magazines such as Woman & Home, and in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in New York. He also wrote crime short stories for Scottish publishers DC Thomson.
For many years John was a freelance feature writer for two North Wales newspaper groups. Since 1995 he has published four books on writing technique, 35 Western novels, and seven crime novels. Most of those books have also gone to large print editions. His very successful Practical Short Story Writing was published first in the UK, then by Barnes and Noble, New York.
John is a member of the Society of Authors. | |
 | Kate Lord-Brown
Since winning her first short story competition at 17, Kate has been published internationally by magazines including Conde Nast Traveller, Blueprint, the Bookseller and Arts Business Today. Kate studied at Durham University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, and is now completing a MA in Creative Writing at MMU. Her blog for writers juggling work and family life is being read in over 100 countries. Kate is also a book reviewer for Book Bag and the US/UK Review. She has had numerous short stories published, and her novels are represented by Curtis Brown Literary Agency. Kate is currently completing her fourth novel, and she is a finalist in the ITV ‘People’s Author’ competition 2009. | |
 | Kelly Rose-Bradford
Kelly Rose Bradford is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in opinion pieces, real life stories and general interest features. She writes regularly for the Daily Mail and the Daily and Sunday Express, and for the past four years has been a weekly columnist for a Trinity Mirror regional title. She also contributes to numerous women's magazines, parenting and health titles and Sunday supplements.
Kelly left school at sixteen, and embarked on a career in IT, whilst indulging her passion for writing as a hobby. After taking redundancy from her IT job in her twenties, she embarked on her writing career full time, initially as a fiction writer for women's magazines, before moving into features and articles. Over the past fifteen years, Kelly has built up her writing business to include copywriting for business clients, media training and broadcasting.
Kelly lives in west London with her seven-year old son, and is currently working on her second novel. | |
 | Ken Ashton
Ken Ashton is an award-winning journalist and writer. 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 years. An accomplished tutor and writer, he has had short stories published and has helped many writers to publishing success. He has also written about journalism for Writing Magazine.
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 his daughter is a media manager for a major tourism attraction. | |
 | Lesley Eames
In addition to being a writer, Lesley has been a solicitor, an event organiser and a marketing and fundraising development officer for a charity. This has given her wide experience of writing in a variety of styles for a variety of purposes. 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 sixty stories. She has also been successful in writing competitions as varied as crime, writing for children and romance. She won the Elizabeth Goudge Cup in 2009, having been placed second in 2008. An experienced creative writer tutor, Lesley very much enjoys helping students to develop and enjoy their writing. | |
 | 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 did become an Irish bestseller. She has since had two more romantic suspense novels published.
Louise also writes short stories and has been published in a variety of women’s magazines including Take a Break and My Weekly. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. | |
 | Lynne Hackles
Lynne is a full-time writer and tutor and has ventured into all aspects of writing. She has written for children, been a ghostwriter, had stories in almost all of the UK women’s magazines, and those in Australia.
Her regular columns, My Writing Day and Novel Ideas appear in Writing Magazine. Non fiction books include The Handy Little Book for Writers, and more recently, Writing From Life - how to turn personal experience into profitable prose, published by How To Books. | |
 | Margaret Skipworth
Margaret started her writing career over thirty 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, Margaret’s short stories have been published in Woman's Weekly, The People's Friend, My Weekly, That's Life! Fast Fiction (Australia), in small press publications 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 is a member of the Association of Christian Writers and runs the association’s email writing workshops. | |
 | Marie O'Regan
Marie O’Regan is an award nominated author and editor of dark fiction. Her co-edited anthology, Hellbound Hearts, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2009, and 2010 sees the release in the US of Voices in the Dark, a book of interviews conducted with her husband, Paul Kane. She is currently editing three further anthologies and working on a novel, more short fiction and a number of screenwriting projects.
Marie also served as Chairperson of the British Fantasy Society from 2004 to 2008, working on projects alongside such authors as Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, John Connolly, Christopher Fowler and many more. She co-Chaired the Society’s annual convention, FantasyCon, in 2008 with Paul Kane. Marie was also part of the committees for World Horror Convention 2010 and Alt.Fiction 2010, and continues to work on further projects in this arena.
See Marie’s website: www.marieoregan.net | |
 | Mary Charman-Smith
Mary is very experienced, both as a teacher and a writer. She teaches Creative Writing at Adult Education classes and also has taught English to Foreign Students for many years. As well as a BA in English Mary has the PGCE in Post Compulsory Education and the Diploma in TESOL from Brighton University.
Mary has had poems published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies and also placed in competitions. She has a Creative Writing MA from University College, Chichester, where she submitted poetry for her dissertation. Doing this course caused her to look critically at creative writing and she prides herself on giving constructive criticism to students. Many of her own poems are about the countryside and the natural world. | |
 | 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, Period House, The Times Educational Supplement, Take a Break and Aquila.
She is also the author of four non-fiction books: Christmas Cards, Life in the Victorian & Edwardian Workhouse, Prison Life in Victorian England and Life in the Victorian Hospital. Her latest book Tracing Your Medical Ancestors will be published in late 2010 or early 2011.
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. | |
 | Mike Everley
Mike has been a freelance writer and journalist since 1984. He is a member of both the Society of Authors and the National Union of Journalists. He has had over 1,000 articles, advertising features, columns, short stories and poems published. In addition he has written numerous Open-Learning textbooks.
Along with the specialist articles that he writes for the business and industrial press, including regular work for Croner Publications, Mike has also had work published in more general publications and literary magazines including: New Statesman, New Welsh Review, My Weekly, Popular Crafts, Amateur Gardening, Country Quest, Outposts, Cardiff Poet, Ancestors and Window on Wales. He also wrote the advertising features for the Cambrian News for several years.
More recently he has become interested in researching his family history and this has led to a series of articles being published in various magazines and journals. | |
 | 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.
Morgan has written articles analysing a poem by some of Britain's most eminent poets. He also ran a workshop in Poetry Now and in Solo Survivors. Morgan has been a consultant for radio and television programmes. | |
 | Roger Kendall
Roger has a BA Honours degree and PhD in English Language and Literature. He is a qualified teacher and has taught writing for over forty years to both adults and children. He has researched, scripted and presented programmes for BBC radio 3 and 4 and for local radio. His first love is poetry and he has won several prizes in poetry competitions and has been published in many poetry magazines. His second collection of poems Field Paths was published in 2006.
Roger has given poetry readings and adjudicated poetry competitions. He is also an established freelance journalist and has contributed articles to The Great Outdoors, The National Trust Magazine, This England, Evergreen and The Yorkshire Dalesman. His writing was recognised recently when he was made a member of The Society of Authors.
He is married with two grown-up children and among his many interests enjoys walking, gardening, watercolour painting, singing and playing the guitar. | |
 | Stephanie Baudet
As well as articles and short stories for both adults and children, Stephanie has had over 25 further books published by Hamish Hamilton, Cambridge University Press, Andre Deutsch, Anglia Young Books, Poolbeg, Puffin and several others.
She has written for Working Partners/Macmillan for their Best Friends series and rewritten/copy edited four books for Andre Deutsch in their Young Robin Hood series before being commissioned to write the final two entirely. Stephanie has written a number of educational resources for the educational publisher, Educational Printing Services Ltd. These include three Assembly books (Philosophical Stories, Infant Stories and Inspirational Lives), as well as four books for reluctant readers and an historical novel.
Stephanie visits schools to talk to children about writing, assesses manuscripts for Cornerstones and reviews books for Armadillo. She was invited to run a series of workshops for adults in the National Association of Writers’ Groups annual Writing Festivals in 2004 and in 2006.Her most recent book is for reluctant readers is The Owlers (Educational Printing Services Ltd) and she is currently working on some commissioned scripts for a wildlife park. She is a member of the Society of Authors, The Federation of Children’s Book Groups and the SAS (Scattered Authors’ Society). | |
 | Sue Johnson
Sue is published as a poet and short story writer. Her stories have been published in Woman, My Weekly, Take a Break: Fiction Feast, Chat: It’s Fate’, The People’s Friend and That’s Life – Australia. She has self-published four ‘Writer’s Toolkit’ booklets and two visualisation CDs aimed at helping other writers. Sue has written five novels – three are currently with an agent.
Sue spent sixteen years running a quilt-making business while her three daughters were growing up. She then worked for two colleges teaching creative writing and art. She is now a self-employed writer, workshop leader and writing competition judge. She enjoys running workshops at festivals and giving talks to local groups. Many of her former students are now published writers. | |
 | Susan Palmquist
Describing herself as freelance writer by day and author by night, these days Susan can’t remember a time when she wasn’t writing a short story, thinking about the plot for a new novel or working on a non-fiction article. She launched her career by winning The Loft’s Children’s Literature Award and then turned her attention to writing mysteries and romances.
Susan’s articles have appeared in such publications as Health, Arthritis Today, American Profile, Lifetimetv.com and WebMD while her short stories have been published in a variety of magazines such as Woman’s World and People’s Friend. Her first novel, a romance titled A Sterling Affair, was published by The Wild Rose Press in 2008. In 2009, her second romance novel; Sleeping with Fairies was published by Lyrical Press.
In 2008, Susan was long-listed in The Harry Bowling Prize for her current work in progress, a crime thriller titled When the Devil Comes to Call. Later this year Bridge House Publishing will publish one of her short stories in their upcoming Mosiac anthology. Born in London, England, but now residing in the US, Susan previously worked in public relations and spent three years as a publicist for a book publisher. She currently does part time marketing work for Canadian publisher, Breathless Press and writes a monthly blog called Susan Palmquist Interviews at Between the Pages where she interviews both writers and editors. | |
 | Tony Rossiter
A former diplomat and civil servant, is a columnist for Writing Magazine. His ongoing series How to write like…examines what new writers can learn from bestselling authors.
Tony has had articles published in many national magazines, including The Oldie, The Countryman, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Country Walking, Collect it!, Best of British and The Cricketer. He has also written three non-fiction books – The Greatest Management Tips in the World (2008), The Greatest Retirement Tips in the World (2007) and Only a Bloody Game (a humorous book about village cricket, published in 2002).
Tony, a member of the Society of Authors, combines writing with work as a consultant and trainer. For the past five years he has run a two-day training course (several times a year) for staff of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, helping participants to improve their ability to write clear and concise English. | |
 | Valerie Loh
Valerie is a well published author of over twenty historical and contemporary titles. Her work has been published by FA Thorpe Publishing under her pseudonym Valerie Holmes. She is a previous winner of Writing Magazine’s Annual Ghost Story competition. Valerie is also a published ghost-writer.
Trained and qualified in credit management and a tutor of business studies, she is now an experienced creative writing tutor of distance learning courses.
Valerie also completes manuscript appraisals for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s New Writers' Scheme; for which she was shortlisted with her first published title. As a reader for the Historical Novel Society she reviews both adult and children’s books.
She is a member of the Society of Authors, The Crime Writers’ Association, Romantic Novelists’ Association (Valerie’s Hannah of Harpham Hall was shortlisted for the Romance Prize in 2006). | |
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