About Me
I am a novelist and short story writer and live in Teignmouth on the south coast of Devon with my family.
I’ve been writing for ten years and have had some success, winning short story competitions and The Yeovil Literary Prize in 2006 for my novel The Generation Game as a work-in-progress. After several frustrating years, at last I had a breakthrough on 20th January 2011, when I won the Luke Bitmead Bursary for The Generation Game which is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It was a fantastic honour to be awarded the prize by Luke’s mother Elaine and his sister Tiffany and I’m really looking forward to having the book published by Legend Press this summer.
I’m interested in what family is, and can be, in the early part of this century. And in how our past shapes our here and now. Memory, childhood, loss and love are recurrent themes in my work.
I have a BA (Hons) degree in English and an MA in Creative Writing both from Lancaster University. I also have a PGCE from the University of Greenwich. From 1990 to 2004 I was an early years teacher in inner city London schools and in Sussex. I am now a youth worker for 14 to 20 year olds.
I have had short stories published in various anthologies and journals including Dark Tales, Momaya Press and The View from Here literary journal. My current work-in-progress, This Holey Life, was runner up in the Harry Bowling Prize in 2008.
I am a member of Exeter Writers.
