Our anthology writers – part 4

Nicola Miller is a columnist and features writer for a paid-for weekly newspaper called The Bury Free Press and is based in West Suffolk. She usually writes about landscape, books, and food and also enjoys long form memoir. She has her own website, The Millers Tale. Her short story I’m Not Christiane will feature in Words And Women: Three.

Antoinette Moses is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA and also completed a creative/critical PhD on documentary theatre.  She has written a number of plays which have been produced in Norwich and Cambridge, and also published over twenty books of language-learner literature, three of which won the Extensive Reading Award. She lives in Norwich and teaches creative writing at UEA where she also produces FLY, the Festival of Literature for Young people. Her memoir A Canary In Kabul will appear in Words And Women: Three

Patricia Mullin was shortlisted for an Arts Council East Escalator Award in 2009. Her 2005 novel Gene Genie was republished as an e–book in 2012. Two short stories, The Sitting and The Siren, were published in Words And Women: One  and Words And Women: Two respectively. Her novel Casting Shadows was commended in the Yeovil International Literary prize 2014, judged by Elisabeth Buchan. In 2015 Patricia was awarded an Arts Council England grant to re-draft Casting Shadows. Her story Folding will be included in Words And Women: Three.

Glenys Newton gave up her job as a social worker to study storytelling. She won the internationally acclaimed Moth True Stories Told Live in 2014 and appeared on Radio 4 in 2015 to talk about storytelling. More recently, Glenys has become involved in volunteering with refugees as the ever increasing humanitarian crisis spreads through the lands. Glenys will be touring with a performance of refugee stories throughout 2016. Her work of non-fiction, The End Of The Line, will appear in Words And Women: Three

Our anthology writers – part 3

Julie Kemmy has been writing for pleasure since she was about 12 years old, and in more recent years has been writing character studies, short stories, and the outlines of bigger ideas.  She works full-time so usually it is only on holidays that she achieves anything.  She would describe herself as a great reader and admirer of other good writers, with a lot to learn.  Her short story Colin will feature in Words And Women: Three.

Isabelle King is an actress, writer and producer. She’s the founder of Books Talk Back; literary events which support and showcase new writing talent. Isabelle's writing has been short-listed for the Ideas/Writers' Centre Norwich national fiction competition and she won an arts journalism competition to be the Embedded Writer at the Family Arts Conference 2015. Isabelle has written a children's book of short stories and frequently reads them at family events throughout Norfolk. Her storyYou’re In The Movies, Huni will appear in Words And Women: Three

Kathy Mansfield was runner up in a competition by Leaf Books in 2006 with The Steady Bookkeeper which was published as a single short story, set in Malawi. She does not write about stereotypical ‘African’ tragedies: famine, war, destitution. She writes about the other Africa: a complex, energetic and optimistic continent of fifty four very different countries.  Her current project is a collection of short stories set in the context of Zimbabwe and its sometimes violent efforts to change from a white-owned system of agriculture to one which reflects the larger population. Her story The Friends will be included in Words And Women: Three.

C.G. Menon has won a number of short story awards, including the Asian Writer prize, the Winchester Festival award and The Short Story prize. Her stories have been broadcast on radio and are published or forthcoming in journals including The Lonely Crowd and anthologies such as Siren Press' Fugue II, the Rubery Book Award short story collection, the Willesden Herald shortlist and the first Words and Women collection. She lives in Cambridge, and is currently working on her first novel. Her story Sacraments will feature in Words And Women: Three.

Margaret Meyer is a writer, therapeutic counsellor and bibliotherapist. She has worked in schools, museums, and is currently a reader-in-residence in the prison service. Before training in psychology she was a fiction editor with Hodder & Stoughton NZ, publisher for the Museum of London, and director of literature for the British Council, promoting UK writers around the world.  A former journalist, Margaret’s non-fiction has been widely published. Her latest, an essay on ‘not knowing’, is included in the forthcoming The Wisdom of Not Knowing, published by Triarchy Press. Margaret’s story Leda’s Swan will appear in Words And Women: Three

Our anthology writers – part 2

Sharon Eckman was Time Out Travel Writer of the Year in 1995 and her non-fiction has appeared in broadsheets and travel magazines on topics ranging from hunting in Namibia to science fiction fans in London. She was longlisted for the Fish Memoir Prize 2015 and shortlisted for the Words and Women 'About' competition in 2014. Her first novel is currently out with agents and her short story, Dinner for Four, will be published in Shooter Lit's 'Surreal' edition in January 2016. Her short story Charis will feature in Words And Women: Three.

Victoria Hattersley lives in Norwich, works in publishing and has a six year-old daughter. She began writing in 2013 and has had stories published in Unthology 6 by Unthank Books (Norwich) and Before Passing by Great Weather for MEDIA (New York). In addition to writing short stories, she is currently working on her first novel, The Lantern Man. Her story  Looking For Jim Morrison will appear in Words And Women: Three

Danusia Iwaszko is a playwright who lives in Bury St Edmunds, and works regularly in the region and throughout the country. She is Artistic Associate at The Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds, for whom she wrote the musical A Labour of Love in 2015. Her plays have been produced by Eastern Angles, Theatre Royal York, Studio 503, Menagerie Cambridge and she was attached writer at The National Theatre Studio in 2006. She regularly leads writing workshops and runs her own theatre company The Hal Company. Still Life, her story which will be included in Words And Women: Three, was inspired by a statue of a woman on Brixton mainline station. 

 

Sara Keene has spent most of her career in show-business PR, first as a film publicist and latterly as the press representative for a number of actors and directors. She recently completed the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck College and is writing a novel inspired by her experience of life at the heels of the famous. She claims it will be entirely fictional. She is also  planning a children’s book about a boy and his very unusual dog. Sara’s story The Accomplice will feature in Words And Women: Three.

Our anthology writers

As promised we will be posting short biographies of the writers whose work has been selected to appear alongside Sarah Evans’ story – Scalpelling Through - in Words And Women’s third anthology. Sarah Evans won first prize in our prose competition and if you want to find out more about Sarah see our post dated 09/01/16.

Biographies will be posted throughout this week and next. Congratulations to all of the following writers for their success.

Ann Abineri grew up in Colchester and after moving to Cambridge to train as a nurse, she brought up four children, studied with the OU and now teaches in the childcare and education sector. Although frequently tempted by writing courses, Ann now puts time aside to follow her own writing interests and has had success in the last year with poetry, flash fiction and short stories. Ann’s story Atacama will feature in Words And Women: Three.

Deborah Arnander has a PhD in French literature, and works as a literary translator.  She won an Arts Council Escalator award in 2010, when she began her first novel, The Cinderella Watch, which was shortlisted in 2014’s TLC Pen Factor competition. She has published stories in Unthology One and Words and Women: One, both with Unthank Books, and has poetry in the webzine Ink, Sweat and Tears, and in various anthologies published by Gatehouse Press.  She lives in Norwich. Her short story Calentitos will feature in Words And Women: Three.

Susan K Burton spent 14 years in Japan, lecturing as an associate professor in Japanese universities. She has co-authored two academic books, and written for the Telegraph, Times Higher Education, and Going Down Swinging. Now based in Norwich, she is studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the UEA where she is investigating the unusual lives and bizarre livelihoods of foreigners in Japan. Susan’s slice of creative non-fiction Strictly Belly Dance will be published in the anthology.

 

Caroline Davison is a historian, writer and musician from Norfolk. Her novel The Pleasure Garden was published in 2006 by Piatkus. Her children's book The By-Mistake Guide to Norfolk was published in 2012. Caroline has worked as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, a conservation officer, and a freelance historic environment consultant. She is currently Director of the Norfolk Archaeological Trust. Her story Boy With Gun will be published in Words And Women: Three.