My curriculum vitae

Published in

The Guardian	Nautical Magazine
Choice Magazine	The Seafarer
Volunteering Magazine	The Brownie
Irelands Own	Woman’s Way
Animals and You	Freelance Newsletter
Writing Magazine	Catch
Freelance Market News	Guide Patrol
Women’s Weekly Fiction Special	Jackie
Blue Jeans	Town and Village Community Magazine

These have included short stories, articles, personality quizzes, letters to the editor and also greetings card captions.

AWARDS

January 2011
Winner, short story competition (Freelance Market News)
October 2009
Highly commended (children’s story) and Honours (short story) (The Trowell Writers Trust)
April 2009
Winner, flash fiction competition (New Eastbourne Writers)
November 2007
Short-listed in short story for children writing competition (Writing Magazine)
February 2007
Winner, short story competition (Freelance Market News)
March 2005
Commended, short story for children (Viewpoint Manuscript Service Competition).
October 2004
Second prize, Best Story for Children Category (Wellington Town Council’s Short Story Competition).
April 1992
Second prize,  story for children competition judged by commissioning editor of Red Fox, Random Century.

BOOKS (as yet all unpublished)

4 books for children, one for reluctant readers, one non-fiction and one for teenagers. 

OTHER INFORMATION

• Volunteer member of organising committee for Bournemouth Literary Festival
• Director of The Arts Poole
• Creative writing facilitator and tutor in short story writing and producing newsletters
• Editor of two quarterly newsletters for the local voluntary sector
• Short story judge for 3 local writers groups
• Author of 14 best practice leaflets for the third sector in Poole and Bournemouth
• I have run creative writing sessions for the Borough of Poole and the Kube in Poole on a freelance basis.  Participants have included people with mental health problems and older people.
• I run my own short story and creative writing courses.    
• I edit 2 quarterly newsletters for the voluntary sector in Poole (one 24 pages and the other 8).
• I worked on a 6-month best practice project around volunteering, writing copy for websites, newsletters and email alerts. 14 best practice leaflets were written and distributed to the Third Sector in Bournemouth and Poole.I have run two training courses on producing newsletters to Third Sector groups, one was for Poole CVS and the other for Poole Adult Learning.
• I have judged 3 local writers group short story competitions.