Members of Alpha Writers
Chris
Chris has had articles and short stories published; a novel has been written and
"longlisted" in a publisher's New Novels competition. Health problems mean that writing
activities are now mostly online ventures, but have also highlighted the attractions
of shorter literary forms : haiku and "flash-
Christine
Christine has been living in rural Normandy for sixteen years. She channelled her lifelong passion for literature and language into a teaching career and gradually developed a sideline as a writer of both short stories and articles on wide variety of subjects.
Clare
Clare is a writer and holistic therapist, living and working in Kent. Her home is a medieval farmhouse, which she shares with her family and large menagerie. Her hobbies which include horse riding and spinning, happily leave little time for housework.
Dianne
Dianne lives with her husband near Whangarei in the North Island of NZ. She trained as a journalist (concentrating on feature writing) after raising four children and running a dairy farm with her husband. Dianne finds writing is easier on the back than lifting bales of hay and bobby calves, but suggests that the brain works equally as hard when it comes to writing!
Geoff
Trained in physical theatre, Geoff toured Europe with various companies in the eighties. Having written countless sketches for expat community shows in Saudi Arabia, he’s now taking scriptwriting more seriously.
John
John has been writing for more than 20 years, mostly for his own amusement, but he
has had some published articles. He also wrote a technical manual -
Margaret
After working as a newspaper journalist for 20 years Margaret became a freelance writer and editor. She now writes mostly fiction. Her short stories have been published in magazines in the UK and Australia.
Margaret is also a writing tutor for a home study school and a short story manuscript adviser for the Association of Christian Writers.
Margie
Margie lives in South Africa, having previously spent many years in the Turks & Caicos Islands, UK and USA. She has also travelled in China, New Zealand and Canada. She is a freelance writer/photographer and has had many articles and photographs published on wildlife, plants, gardening and nature conservation.
Olaf
Olaf Chedzoy started his career at the hard logical edge of science, but has softened to qualitative rather than quantitative assessments. Led a writers' circle for 15 years, written over 60 short stories and articles, and has occasional publications, including one in the Daily Telegraph.
Rosemary
Rosemary is a full time writer living in North Yorkshire. In addition to writing
for business publications, she writes short stories, poetry and is completing her
second novel. Her first novel was long-
Sally
After 15 years as a journalist at the BBC, Sally went freelance at the beginning
of 2006 as a garden writer. She now writes on gardens and gardening for several national
magazines and websites, and also enjoys writing fiction -
Sue
I have been living in Shavington now for 12 years. This writing business sparked
in to life about 6 years ago -
Zena
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Diana currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and works as an independent computer consultant to support her writing habit. She's dabbled with writing on and off for the last twenty years but just recently completed her first full length novel. A second novel is currently under way, which she hopes to get published one day.
Diana
DA
Dorothyanne, a.k.a. DA, has been writing ever since her book of tortured poetry from
Grade 4 received acclaim from misguided elementary school teachers. She now writes
humour and mysteries (rarely combining these) and creative non-