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Derek Healy grew up at the foot of the Cotswolds Hills in Gloucestershire and, before a career in mental health social work, studied English Literature at St John’s College, Oxford University. However, overcoming that impediment, he has gone on to see his poetry appear in many journals, including The Road Not Taken , The Lyric , Ibbetson Street (all USA), Orbis , Snakeskin and The Cannon’s Mouth .…
Colette Paul was born in Glasgow. She is the author of Whoever you Choose to Love (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/ Phoenix) , a collection of stories which were serialized on Radio 4, and shortlisted for The Spirit of Scotland Writer Award. Colette’s work has appeared in several anthologies and magazines, including Mslexia , Edinburgh Review , Stand , and Litro . Colette’s story ‘O Tell me the Truth About…
Roger Bygott is a writer and researcher living in Manchester. He was an ordained Buddhist for twenty years and lived in a monastery in the Spanish mountains for three years. He studied Interactive Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, which led him to co-found and co-direct Manifest Arts, a biennial arts festival in Manchester that highlighted the city's network of arts studios between 2015…
Katherine Howey lives in Leicester. She has a special interest in the social history of the late Georgian period, and realistic portrayals of neurodiverse and disabled people. Her historical fiction focuses on themes of outsidership and disability, and the struggle to break free of stereotypes to achieve a fulfilling and authentic life. In Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens is her debut novel and book one…
Claire Walker ’s poetry has been nominated for the Forward Prizes, and shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. Her work is published in journals and anthologies including Poetry Wales , Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal , Finished Creatures , Dust , Aesthetica , and Ten Poems about Daughters (Candlestick Press). Her new pamphlet is How to Shape Our Mouths (Black Cat Poetry Press,…
Congratulations to Constantine, MA Creative Writing graduate, who has just published his new children's novel The Lady of Atlantis ! Constantine is an autistic author and father. He achieved a first-class BA at Middlesex University in 2017 and completed his Master's Degree at the University of Leicester in 2022. Between the two degrees he wrote four episodes of the Children's TV show Pablo and has…
About The Sum of Our Parts The Sum of Our Parts is a new anthology of Creative Writing by Year 6 students at Ellistown Primary School in Coalville. It is published by Coalville C.A.N. Community Publishing . Congratulations to all the students involved! The anthology is edited by Constantine, University of Leicester MA Creative Writing graduate. You can read more about the anthology here . Below,…
Congratulations to UoL PhD Creative Writing graduate Hannah Stevens, whose new short story collection, On the Bodies of Strangers , has just been published! Hannah Stevens is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. In Their Absence , her debut collection of stories was published by the Stretto imprint of Roman Books and was translated into Bulgarian by Ana Pipeva for Altera Press. Her writing has…
June Wentland would like to be able to say that she has a degree in Cosmology from Samarkand University and now divides her time between Milan and Vienna as a doyen of both dance and fashion but this would not be true. Married with a child by the time she was twenty, she’s an ordinary woman from Hull and now (via Manchester and Bristol) lives in Wiltshire. Her novel, Foolish Heroines (Valley…
Aidan Trulove is a writer from Austin, Texas, who specialises in experimental fiction, mostly fantasy and horror. She mainly writes for a Young Adult (YA) audience, though also enjoys horrifying her professors with her encyclopaedic knowledge of The Rocky Horror Picture Show , a film she has incorporated into all of her academic work (without penalisation). She has been published by the Agave…
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