by Maggie Kay
Brian Lockett started writing when he retired from full-time employment in the Civil Service in 1989. He now specialises in short stories, which he uploads on YouWriteOn.
Julia Pattison has been writing children’s stories since the birth of her own children, Lara and Matthew, in the eighties. She has enjoyed some publishing success including selling stories to Twinkle magazine and annuals, as well as The Little Storyteller series by Marshall Cavendish. Julia is now inspired to write further children’s stories after the birth of her beautiful grandson, Bramwell, in 2016.
Fay Wentworth has had short stories, novellas and articles for children and adults published in magazines, online and in paperback/ebooks. She has pursued her love of creative writing since childhood; her first short story was written at the age of eleven, a tragic tale about a rabbit in a thunderstorm! Website: faywentworth.wordpress.com.
Val Williamson Val Williamson has been writing for prizes and publication since childhood. Her short stories have been published in a variety of magazines and broadcast on BBC radio. Several appear in anthologies, including Richard and Judy’s Winning Stories, and a few were recently published as an Amazon ebook, Night Strike. Val has also published many short non-fiction articles in online magazines such as Digital Journal, Decoded Science and Decoded Past, or as chapters in academic books
THE MAGIC OF SWANWICK
Swanwick Writers’ Summer School has been captivating audiences for nearly 70 years. Believed to be the longest running residential writers’ school in the world, the ‘magic of Swanwick’ is legendary. For one spell-binding week every August, over 200 published and unpublished writers across all genres gather together to renew old friendships and forge new ones.
Katy Clarke loved Swanwick. She attended regularly for nearly thirty years; was a course tutor on many occasions; sat on the organising committee and served as Chairman during 2007 and 2008 (the Diamond Jubilee year).
Website: swanwickwritersschool.org.uk