Chris

I entered the craft of story telling quite late in life and almost as an experiment.

Originally, I had wanted to do an evening course of some sort to stretch the mind but considered the academic year too much of a commitment but, low and behold I found a ten week course for creative writing and enrolled. A friend suggested I should write about my life. She thought it sounded so challenging but was always putting it across as another ludicrous episode that it had her in stitches.

My ten week course turned into several years and I managed to put together a novel length story in order to develop plot and characters. Nowadays I seem to concentrate on short stories and try to make them as comical as I can.

Chris

Margarita

One day when I was in Year 3 we were asked to write down what we wanted to be when we grew up. Without hesitating, I scribbled ‘writer’. Since then, I have always written, on and off, finding time when I can despite life rudely getting in the way.

 

I enjoy writing short stories – which I occasionally enter into competitions – and am working on a couple of longer pieces. I particularly like flash fiction and using a random word generator to set my topic.

 

A Surrey girl born and bred, I spent my whole life in London and the Home Counties except for a couple of brief sojourns to locations not-too-far-north for uni. I am a relative newbie to Leamington Spa, re-locating a few years ago for my husband’s job. I have grown to love the town, its gorgeous architecture, independent shops and café culture.

 

I am currently on maternity leave and spend most of my days trying to keep up with my 7 month old who is obsessed with crawling at high speed towards anything dangerous. I am also learning how to drive.

 

Margarita