Mandy Sutter
At age 11, Mandy Sutter began her writing career with a film script for Walt Disney. On returning it, Walt Disney were kind enough not to point out the script’s close resemblance to The Jungle Book....
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Since I first learnt to read and write at the age of five, I have, unconsciously at least, wanted to be a poet. Language has always been an object of creative wonder for me, from the rhymes in ‘Rupert...
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My Writing Life The evening, when the phone went at that time when it’s always some bloke selling double glazing, was the one which made me feel I could call myself a writer. I grabbed the receiver...
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My Writing Life The perennial advice to writers to ‘write what you know’ is nonsense. You should write what excites you, whatever grabs you, for which you have a passion to communicate to others. In...
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Trevor Belshaw, aka, Trevor Forest, is a writer of both adult and children’s fiction. He lives in Nottingham, UK with his wife Doreen and two mad Springer Spaniels, Molly and Maisie. Trevor is the...
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My Writing Life I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. That’s not to say I’ve always been a writer, I’ve just always put pen or pencil to paper when the mood demands. In the playground at...
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Biography David Cooke won a Gregory Award in 1977 and published Brueghel’s Dancers in 1984, but then stopped writing for twenty years. A retrospective collection, In the Distance, was published last...
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Fran Clark My Writing Life I’ve always had a thing for making up stories. Just to qualify that – I’m not an habitual liar, I just liked writing stories. English was my favourite subject at school and...
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William Bedford WILLIAM BEDFORD is an award-winning novelist, children’s novelist, poet and short-story writer, his work appearing in Agenda, Critical Quarterly, Encounter, The Daily Telegraph, Essays...
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Ruth E Dixon is an English poet and broadcast journalist. Originally from Peterborough, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in European Studies at the University of Humberside in Hull in 1994, then a...
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