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Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation Nursery Cook
Location Morecambe, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Introduction In the mornings I’m a Nursery Cook, the rest of the time a Writer. Been writing for decades: short stories, plays, poems, a sitcom and more recently flash fiction, Creative Writing MA at Lancaster Uni and now several novels. Been placed in competitions (Woman’s Own, Greenacre Writers and flashtagmanchester) and shortlisted in others (Fish, Calderdale, Short Fiction Journal). I won the Calderdale Prize 2011, was runner-up in the Ink Tears Flash Fiction Comp & won the Greenacre Writer Short Story Comp 2013. I have stories in Jawbreakers, Eating My Words, Flash Dogs Anthologies 1-3, 100 RPM and the Stories for Homes anthology. My work’s often described as ‘sweet’ but there’s usually something darker and more sinister beneath the sweetness. I love magical realism and a comedy-tragedy combination. My first novel, Queen of the World, is about a woman who believes she can influence the weather. I’m currently working on a 3rd: Priscilla Parker Reluctant Celebrity Chef. Originally from West Midlands, I love living by the sea in Morecambe, swimming, cycling, theatre, books, food, weather, sitcoms and LBBNML … SQUEEZE!
Interests Writing, reading, food, comedy, music
Favorite Movies Revengers Trajedy, Jude, Shallow Grave, Withnail and I, Smoke, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Zelig, Midnight in Paris, all other Woody Allen films, Life is Sweet, Secrets and Lies, This Year's Love, The Winter Guest, A Midwinter's Tale
Favorite Music Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Kirsty MacColl, The Proclaimers, Kate Bush, The Beautiful South, The House Martins, XTC, Billy Bragg, The Dodge Brothers
Favorite Books Paul Magrs, Anne Tyler, Carol Shields, Sara Maitland, Kate Atkinson, Sue Townsend, Elizabeth Strout, Charles Dickens

You're trapped in a well with a goat and a slinky. Describe how you will escape.

WHY THE HALIFAX WOULD I WANT TO ESCAPE?