Lou
.jfif)
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | I'm an English teacher and examiner |
| Introduction | Hi. I'm a writer based in Yorkshire, though I lived in South London for eleven years and I've also lived in Northamptonshire and Greater Manchester. I was awarded a Distinction for my MA in Creative Writing with the Open University in 2020. I'm working on a novel about students and teachers in a sixth form, and also on a children's fantasy novel. I also write short stories and poems. In 2020, I won First Prize in the Mere Literary Festival Poetry Prize, and my story 'The Fish Tree' came First in the Arts Quarterly Prize. My work has been published in many literary magazines, both in print and online, including Agenda, Acumen, Bandit, Goat's Milk, Iota, Dreamcatcher, Fire, Obsessed With Pipework, Popshots, Tears In The Fence, Pushing Out The Boat, and South. Most recently my work has appeared in Makarelle, POTB, River and South, Punk Noir, Pine Cone Review, Fieldstone Review, 805, and The English Review, among others. |
| Interests | Writing, studying, cooking, watching TV, reading, spending time with my nephew, walking |
| Favorite Movies | Lost In Translation My favourite TV includes: The Gilmore Girls, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Better Call Saul, Modern Family, Community, Frasier |
| Favorite Music | David Bowie, Elvis Costello, The Jam, The Clash, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, Blur, Nirvana, The Arctic Monkeys, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bernstein, Sondheim, Gershwin, Verdi, Puccini, Biset, Debussy, Vivaldi, Mahalia Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Barbra Streisand - the more I list, the more I think of... |
| Favorite Books | Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, everything by Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde, Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Rose Tremain, etc etc |