Hello, and thank you for visiting my site. I hope that you'll return often and always find something of interest about my world and what inspires me to pick up a pen. (This is a figure of speech, unfortunately. My handwriting is terrible!) Here's what I've been up to recently...
What a week!
I enjoy exploring a variety of genres and last week saw me winning first place in Ripon Writers’ Group’s ‘Writing for Children’ competition. Here I am with Jill Freeman, who kindly agreed to be our adjudicator and presented me with the Daphne Peters cup. (Daphne, who passed away in 2020, was a well known children’s writer and founded the Group over 40 years ago.) My story, ‘Sami and Smiley’ was about a sad little boy whose chance encounter with a baby seal gave him hope for the future.
Hard on the heels of that success came Ripon Poetry Festival, in which I took an active part. Reading in the Cathedral in the afternoon was followed by an open mic in the Claro Lounge in the evening, both of which I very much enjoyed. Onwards and upwards!
8 October, 2025 - Make the first comment on this story