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SOME BITS OF NEWS
November 2011
November 2011 WRITERS SLOUGH 5000 word Horror Competition My story An Unexpected Act Of Mercy won first place in the Slough Writers summer competition. Joint second were Sally East (All That I Am) and William Campbell (Angel’s Trumpet). This competition was judged by the members taking part who voted for their favourite story.
October 2011 The November issue of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Life magazine carried two of my articles, a total of eight pages. The subjects were the adult interest in dollshouses and women who flew Spitfires and bombers in WW2.
July 2011 I was voted writer of the year at Slough Writers. If you are looking for a supportive bunch of fellow writers, look no further than my links page
July 2011  The July issue of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Life magazine carried my four page article on two brothers competing for Olympic rowing glory in 2012.
June 2011  The June issue of Writers' News magazine carried my four page article on the genesis of the King's Speech screenplay.
April 2011  On Monday 18 April the winners of the Slough Writers short story competition were announced. I came second with my story Walking On Quicksand. The picture also shows Kay Woods (third), William Campbell (first) and the judge Mel Gow editor of Beat magazine.
April 2011.  My article Is Royal Intrigue Hiding In Your Loft was published in the April issue of Berkshire Life magazine. The article is about the book The King's Speech based on interviews with the two authors who visited Windsor to promote the book.
February 2011  The Liverpool Network Theatre Group's production of The Gatekeeper's True Religion was a great success. It was in a double bill with Caryl Churchill's Far Away. The director Kevin Foott said the cast all enjoyed the challenge and the production gripped the audience with the mixture of drama and lighter moments.
December 2009 We Shall Overcome a story set during the cold war was shortlisted for the Southport Open Short Story Competition. It is set at the time of the government's Protect And Survive campaign and features a teenage girl facing the reality of the nuclear threat and going on her first CND march - much against her father's wishes.
November 2009 My not so short story (5000 words) The Great British Soviet won the Slough Writers summer competition. This story is about what happened when Britain was invaded by the Russians in 1945 after President Henry Wallace withdrew American forces from Europe (Yes, it did happen - honest). It follows the struggles of one family to survive the new order.
September 2009 SUCCESS AT WATERSTONES. On The Tringham Trail was one of four fifteen minute radio plays read as a radio performance with sound effects in the Slough bookshop to an audience of 60. The plays were written as part of the Slough Centre Stage project initiated by BBC Radio Berkshire.
July 2009 Lazy Bee Scripts have become the publisher for The Gatekeeper's True Religion.
Stuart Ardern of Lazy Bee reported that his reviewer was very enthusiastic about all aspects of the play, and remarked "One of the most outstanding things about this play is the sly humour that keeps cropping up. I was expecting gloom, something along the lines of “Uncle Vanya”, and instead I was laughing out loud." June 2009 My play Whistleblower under the title Ashes On The Wind (don't ask!) was one of 16 shortlisted plays out of an entry of 236 from 13 different countries in the Drama Association of Wales 2009 One Act Play Festival. Read the script.
June 2009 I have been invited to contribute to a project celebrating the mood of The Sixties. Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of the start of that fabulous decade. Writers have been asked to take a sixties song as the inspiration for a short story which will be published with a CD of the songs. I selected We Shall Overcome and wrote about a teenager coming to terms with the fear of nuclear war which was very real at the time. The publishing agent said "...this piece of writing...sheds a little light relief, compared to some of the other stories in the book. Also I think it is important that the nuclear threat and the response of people during that time is included in this project. 'We Shall Overcome' is a vital contribution. If this book is a celebration of The Sixties, it is inevitably a reminder of the era - and this is too big a topic to omit." |
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