Published Authors
If you are a member of NAWG and a published author why not submit details of your website, with up to 100 words and a photo.
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Nasrullah Anwar |
www.trollking.co.uk |
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I am a writer of fantasy fiction and currently working on the third draft of my first novel, the forthcoming fantasy epic, The Changeling King.
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Brad Ashton |
ashtons@london.com |
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Brad Ashton's new book THE FUNNY THING ABOUT WRITING COMEDY is an essential for writers wanting provide funny scripts for TV and Radio, It's based on what Brad has learnt writing over 1,000 scripts for TV in the U.K., Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Canada and America. Bob Monkhouse said "What Brad doesn't know about comedy isn't worth laughing at." Normal price £12.50 but only £10 to NAWG members including postage, Cheque to Brad Ashton, 7, Abbotshall Avenue, Southgate, London N14 7JU. |
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Irene Black |
www.ireneblack.co.uk |
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Guildford Writers’ Circle member, Irene Black has won prizes for short stories, poetry and articles, including the 2003 NAWG Annual Best Short Story award. In her novel, The Moon’s Complexion she has used her experience of living in the countries portrayed to produce a work of literary fiction, played out in the Indian subcontinent and England during the 1990s. It is a romantic thriller, and an exploration of prejudice and preconceptions. She now writes full-time. |
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Steve Bowkett |
www.sbowkett.freeserve.co.uk |
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Steve Bowkett taught English for eighteen years and became a full-time writer in 1993. He still works in education and most recent writing has been in that area. He has also written fantasy and SF for teenagers, adult and teen horror, romance, mainstream fiction for pre-teens, fiction and non-fiction for younger readers and poetry for all ages. To date he has published forty titles and numerous short stories and poems. |
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Jake Claret |
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Jake Claret has had two books published 'Design for a profession' and 'Accounting Two'. He has also contributed to electronic reference books, magazine articles on finance and business. At the moment he is working on a book of family history. |
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Leah Cohen |
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Leah Cohen has published Third World Country books for financial investment, reviews and articles in newspapers, Poems in 'Poems on the Buses', London. she has also had her play 'Short Stay' produced at Grace Theatre, Battersea, London. |
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Judith Cranswick |
www.judithcranswick.co.uk |
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Judith Cranswick won NAWG Awards for her crime novels, All in the Mind and Watcher in the Shadows both of which have been now been published. She has also had success with many of her short stories in various competitions and had others printed in magazines and read on local radio. Judith teaches Creative Writing, organizes writing workshops and gives talks about writing and readings to a variety of groups. You can read extracts from her novels and several of her short stories on her web site which also contains a writers’ page with workshop exercises. |
Susan French Down |
www.susanfrench.co.uk |
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Susan French Down has had two crime thrillers published, the 79 Series in 2004 Vanguard Press ISBN 1-843861-06-2 and Yesterday’s Wrongs ISBN 1-843862-08-5 in 2005. She donates her Royalties to The MS Society. Other successes include being short listed in a Writers’ News competition; her short story ‘Footprints in the Sand was published in Scribble Magazine. In poetry, she was runner-up in s NAWG free verse competition this year; highly commended in the annual free verse competition and in the Muriel Barber Memorial competition themed ‘Memories of Work.’ Susan is chair of Salisbury New Writers. |
Pam Fish |
www.pam-fish.com |
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Pam Fish is a newly published author who is finally getting there and looking for support. She has only been writing seriously for five years and has already written three novels. She believes hard work and enthusiasm definitely pay off. Take a look at Pam's website where you can read an extract from Pam’s newly published book, THE LAST RESORT. The ideas page provides opportunities for members’ contributions and is planned to develop into a practical resource with links relevant to writers. |
Paul Grainger |
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Paul Grainger classifies his work as ‘hobby-writing’. He is an associate member of the Lincoln Phoenix Writers and a frequent contributor to ‘Link’ by way of his ‘Speaking Personally’ column and a succession of short articles focused on the art of creative writing. Poetry, short stories and three novellas (one published) have flowed from his word processor, bringing him success with entries in NAWG, Ottakars/Faber and Age Concern competitions. Another of his interests is book reviewing, with the ‘Lincolnshire Echo’ newspaper providing a regular publishing outlet. |
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Lynne Hackles |
www.lynnehackles.com |
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I’m Lynne Hackles, married, two grown-up kids. Four years ago I moved from Worcester to the depths of Pembrokeshire and my work output has quadrupled. I write every day and make my money by providing stories for women’s magazines. I’ve also sold a couple of books (but not my novel), been a ghost writer and am responsible for My Writing Day and Novel Ideas in Writing Magazine. It might be easier to say what I don’t write - poetry or pornography. I am a tutor for a home-study writing course and also teach and speak at conferences and writing holidays. |
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Richard Hallows |
www.spikethecat.co.uk |
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Richard
Hallows worked as a decorator, a tour guide, a grouse beater, and a door
to door salesman, before a twenty year long career in Information
Technology that took him to Hong Kong, Macau, the |
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Johnnie Johnson |
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Johnnie Johnson was winner of NAWG’s award for ‘the most promising novel’ in 1996. He has twenty published books to his name. He has won the South East Arts Prose Prize and was a finalist in the Fenner Brockway Peace Prize for Literature. His debut novel, And Such Great Names as These, was published in February 2007. Johnnie has recently signed a five-year contract with audio-book publishers, Oakhill Publishing. His novel, And Such Great Names as These, is to appear on disk in the summer of 2008. |
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Angela Lanyon |
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Angela
Lanyon
was born in Leamington Spa in 1930 and has lived all over the British
Isles. She has three children and has worked in Children’s Theatre as
Children’s writer in Residence Swan Theatre, Worcester; Assistant
manager and Administrator for Children’s Work, Westcliff-on Sea; House
Manager, Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatre Manager at the Theatre
Royal, Plymouth. Angela has written numerous plays for children’s
theatre some published by New Playwrights Network. She has also written
plays for adults and school plays published by Heinemann in their Literacy
series. |
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Anita Loughrey |
www.anitaloughrey.com |
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Anita Loughery writes teacher resources for primary schools and educational books for children. She has also had published many short stories for the national women's magazines, articles in her local newspaper the Newbury Weekly News and author interviews in Writers' Forum, as well as writing for several county magazines. Anita runs her own web company - Sunrise Webs, and is the web administrator for the National Association of Writers Groups (NAWG). |
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Peter Lowthian |
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Writer and Specialist in Pressure Area care, Peter Lowthian is a member of Harrow Writers' Circle. He is author of the historical adventure ‘Iron is not Immortal’, spent many years researching and developing new ideas for nursing and medical care. As well as writing novels and short stories, he continues to write articles for nursing/medical journals. His book is set during the dramatic and exciting period of the reign of Alexander the Great. It is full of the historical detail and depth of description that the modern reader demands. |
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Lesley Mace |
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Lesley
Mace
has been writing since December
02. Her short stories have
appeared in Hertfordshire Life, The Lady and Writers’
Forum.
Lesley has also had poetry published in Writers’ Forum, and last
year was runner up in her local Ottakar’s Poetry Competition with Sestina
for Lewana.
Lesley helped to set up the writers’ group The Stortford Scribblers who
encourage members to submit their work for publication. Lesley
is 80,000 words into Fathoming the Shadows, her first full-length
book; it will be finished in 2006. |
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Verica Peacock |
www.vericathefind.info |
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I'm Verica Peacock, born in Croatia (ex-Jugoslavia), I came to this country aged 16 in 1946. My autobiography, The Find - the story of a war child - was recently published. I have had articles published in magazines and newspapers and won first and second prizes for poetry in competitions and in Writers' Forum. At present I'm working on a book of my poetry and on a coffee table book of advice from famous people from the world of sport, politics, stage and cinema, as well as ordinary people, No Summit Is Too High, to be published in aid of the British Disabled Ski Team. I am a member of The Inn Scribers writing group in Harlow. |
David Robertson |
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David Robertson is a freelance writer of articles in newspapers. he has had poems published in anthologies |
Susan Sawyer |
www.susan-sawyer-childrens-author-co.uk |
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I wrote my first book when I was thirteen and returned to writing when I completed the Language and Literature Advanced Diploma at Cambridge University in 1996. I retired from teaching early to write. I love writing because it's POWERFUL and can AFFECT others, sometimes profoundly. I’ve just had my first book published and have another ready to go. The third is just coming together |
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Pamela Strange |
pstrange@ntlworld.com |
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Pamela Strange - I began by writing Adventures of Trip the Dormouse in local paper, for three years. I wrote various articles and one story was short listed and read on stage for the Peterborough Literary Festival.I switched to writing short stories for women's magazines, like The Lady and Woman's Weekly etc. Just published, imaginative misery me genre, Daddy's Little Spy - Isabella, by Isabella Rose which is available from:- www.daddyslittlespy.co.uk. Or any bookshop ISBN No. 978184426472-8. I am now writing short stories again before tackling a mystery romance. |
Karol Tiler |
k_tiler@msn |
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Karol Tiler is a member of NAWG. She was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and now lives in Florida, USA. Karol has had a couple of short stories published in women's magazines. Her first novel a fiction/romance was published in June 2006 and is called 'FOOTPRINTS' and her second novel was published in 2007 and is called 'OUT OF THE GUTTER.' |
Eileen Thornton |
www.eileenthornton.co.uk |
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Though Eileen Thornton has only been writing for five years, her articles and short stories have appeared in several magazines, including The Lady, People’s Friend, Heritage and Scottish Field. She has also written two novels, one of which, The Trojan Project, is due to be published summer 2008. As well as being an Associate Member of NAWG, Eileen is also a member of the Society of Authors, the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, the Women Writers Network, Edinburgh Writer’s Club, The Borders Writer’s Forum, and the Melrose Literary Society. More details of her novel, plus a selection of her published work can be found on her website. |
Jane Wenham-Jones |
www.janewenham-jones.com |
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Jane Wenham-Jones has had over a 100 short stories and articles published in both the women's magazines and various national newspapers. She writes a monthly advice piece for Writing Magazine and a humorous weekly column for the Isle of Thanet Gazette, part of the Mirror group. She is the author of three novels - RAISING THE ROOF (Bantam 2001), PERFECT ALIBIS (Bantam 2003) and ONE GLASS IS NEVER ENOUGH (Accent Press 2005). |
Simon Whaley |
www.simonwhaley.co.uk |
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Simon Whaley
is a full time writer whose work has appeared in a variety of publications
including the Daily Express, In Britain, Heritage, The Lady, People’s
Friend, Holiday Cottages Magazine and Walking Wales. He is a regular
contributor to Country Walking and Country & Border Life. His book “100
Ways For A Dog To Train Its Human” spent 4 weeks in the bestseller lists in
December 2003, and it has also been sold to |
Mary V. Williams |
www.inkydigits.com |
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Mary V. Williams is a member of the Drayton Writers' Group. Her popular self help books 'Overcoming Impotence' and 'Make Up or Break Up?' are published by Sheldon. Her autobiographical account 'The Engineer's Daughter' can be bought through Amazon, or the above website along with details of other publications and group writing. A collection of poems 'Always I Hear Your Voice' can be purchased for the princely sum of £3.00 by emailing mary@williams99.demon.co.uk. The Drayton Writers plan to publish a book of collected stories and poems. |
Diane Wilson |
www.freespiritwriters.me.uk/index.htm |
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Diane Wilson
is NAWG’s secretary and had success in three poetry competitions in
2005. Her book of poetry and prose about the role of Talbot House and
Poperinge in WWI, The Iron Harvest, was published in May 2005
by Biscuit Publishing, with launches in Bridlington and Poperinge. Early
in the year, Diane won a Writers’ Forum poetry competition,
was runner-up for Writing Magazine with a terza rima, and she
recently won the NAWG/Writers Bureau competition. Diane also won Writers’
News’ prize for onomatopoeia. Her work has featured in other
competitions and in anthologies. She is secretary of Bridlington
Writers’ Group.
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Mike Wilson |
www.freespiritwriters.me.uk/index.htm |
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Mike Wilson
is NAWG’s chairman and often “too busy to write.” But his novel Full
Fathom Five, about Bridlington’s Victorian lifeboat men, was
published early in 2005 by Biscuit Publishing. Mike is enthusiastic
about Bridlington and has several pamphlets on the town’s history
available in the local maritime museum. Several of his articles have
appeared in local and regional newspapers and magazines. He is delighted
when his one-liners and photos with humorous captions feature in the
national Daily Mail. With Diane, Mike performs historical
sketches about Amy Johnson and his hero Kit Brown from Full Fathom
Five for groups and schools.
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