Member Successes

March 2021

Cherrie Taylor
– has had a collection of her poetry published by Dempsey and Windle.

December 2020

Cherrie Taylor
– won best story from a West Sussex resident in the West Sussex Mind Short Story competition with Circle Dancing.

October 2020

Cherrie Taylor
– had two poems commended by Shoreham Wordfest. They are in the Wordfest anthology.

Liz Eastwood
– was shortlisted for the prestigious Bridport Flash Fiction prize.

September 2020

Phil Williams
– has a new book out – Kept from Cages – the start of a new fantasy series. Read an interview with Phil about writing,reading and self-publishing.

Members’ Successes 2019/20

July 2020

Richard Buxton
– his second Shire’s Union novel, The Copper Road, will be launched on 26th July.

Alison Hawes
– has published four non-fiction ‘book bag’ titles for the Read Write Inc series: Mythical Monsters, Small but deadly,Plants, A letter to Grandad; has published a further three digital titles for Oxford Reading Buddy series: Puppets, Red Fox, Ant andDove and has been commissioned- to write four fiction early readers for OUP.

Rose Bray
– was shortlisted in the Fish Lockdown Poetry prize. She was just one of 131 shortlisted, however there were 1436entries and £4342 was donated to Oxfam.

June 2020

Sarah Higbee
– published Picky Eaters, a short story about family life, dragon-style, on 22nd June. All proceeds to go to mentalhealth charities. Available at Amazon as an ebook and paperback.

Gina Holland
– her new novel, Little Village of Second Chances is being released in June.

Alison Hawes
– has published two Ladybird-Read-it-yourself readers: Wags the big dog, Banana Muffins and has published- twofurther fiction titles for OUP’s new Word Sparks series: The Hunt for Ted, The Twins.

May 2020

Cherrie Taylor
– had a poem published in Reach Poetry in May. “A man stopped near his porch”

April 2020

Roger Shadbolt
– his short story ‘Last Ferry to Santa Margherita’ was short listed for the April edition of ‘Writers Forum’

March 2020

Jan Henley
– her latest book – FROM VENICE WITH LOVE by Rosanna Ley. Published by Quercus Books March 2020 (hardback)and June 2020 (paperback).

January 2020

Tracy Fells
– came 3rd in the Writers’ Forum magazine monthly competition winning £100 with a story called Cupboard Love. It waspublished in the January issue.

December 2019

Liz Eastwood
– has won a prize in the BHAC poetry competition (which one will be revealed on 24 November) and is on theBridport Prize short list.

September 2019

Linda Robinson
– her debut play, Truth Will Out, is being published by Lazy Bee Scripts.

Alison Hawes
– has been commissioned to write three more early readers for OUP and her non fiction reader for Rising Stars,entitled Animal Heroes is out now in paperback.

Members’ Successes – 2018/19

July 2019

Lin Robinson
– Her debut play ‘Truth Will Out’ was performed at the Purple Playhouse in May as part of Brighton Fringe 2019 –
receiving a 4 star review

June 2019

Jan Henley
– has had her novel The Lemon Tree Hotel by Rosanna Ley published by Quercus is out in paperback 13th June 2019

May 2019

Alison Hawes
– has been commissioned to write four non fiction early readers for OUP

February 2019

Alison Hawes –
has been commissioned to write two early fiction readers for OUP

Richard Buxton
– his story Between the Times was placed 2nd in the 2018 Retreat West Short Story Competition.

January 2019

Wendy Swarbrick
– Wendy’s Flash Fiction piece, ‘Desecration and Repentance’, (originally inspired at a WSW workshop) placedsecond in the Third Quarter 2018
Flash 500 competition

December 2018

Alison Hawes
– has been commissioned to write a further two early readers for Ladybird books. Also, out now, USA co-editions ofAlison’s OUP early readers, Ann’s Mess, Turnip is missing and The Zipbot.

Phil Williams
– his novel Under Ordshaw was placed as a semi-finalist in SPFBO 2018, an international competition hosted byauthor Mark Lawrence. Phil’s book was highly commended, reaching 3rd place in his group.

October 2018

Alison Hawes
– has been commissioned by Ladybird books to write 6 early readers.

September 2018

Jilliana Ranicar-Breese
– has self published a collection of Turkish inspired poems in English and Turkish, published in Turkey andentitled ‘Nazar’. She also performed in the Kalkan Amphitheater, Turkey in the summer.

August 2018

Richard Buxton
– his short story, ‘Between the Times’, placed second in the Historical Novel Society Short Story Competition.

Members’ Successes 2017/18

May 2018

Rose Bray
– She has been shortlisted for the Strokestown Poetry Festival 20/20 competition in Ireland. This was an interestingcompetition because the organizers put twenty photographs on the web and you had to write a poem to fit one of them. She wasalso longlisted for The Steyning Short Story Competition.

April 2018

Richard Buxton
– his short story War Hero was published in the US quarterly journal, The
Tishman Review
Free to read online.(War Hero is on page 114).

March 2018

Kathy Schilbach
– won the Writers’ Forum flash fiction competition for February with her story ‘Ken doll conundrum’. Writing asKate Finnemore, she has had her Pocket Novel ‘Looking For Her’ accepted by The People’s Friend.

Alison Hawes
– has been commissioned to write 6 early readers for OUP. She also has the following books out now – Fish Tank anearly non fiction reader for Collins Education
– Photos, Tractor and Imani’s Library Book ; all fiction international readers for CUP
– Rags, This is not my pizza!, Men on the Moon,The Thirsty Crow, Dad makes a mistake, a Big Bag of Cash, The Radish Contest,My Holiday, The Best Twin , Bad Cat, The Witch’s Kitchen, and Party Games, ; a mix of fiction and non-fiction early readers for OUP

Jilliana Ranicar-Breese
– Jilliana’s true life vignette entitled ‘The buck stops here’ was published online by Suzanne Noble’sblog/magazine
Advantagesofage.com

Richard Buxton
– his short story Little Borthers was published by EarlyWorks Press as part of the anthology ‘
The Sorcery of Smog
.’and his US Civil War novel ‘Whirligig’ won a silver medal in The
Wishing Shelf Book Awards.

February 2018

Kathy Schilbach
– writing as Kate Finnemore, has sold her short story entitled Riddle-Me-A-Riddle-O to The People’s Friend, andthree short stories – Land of Promise, Climbing the Hill, and Keyboard Cat – to My Weekly.

Gerry Thompson
– has recently been accepted as a Huffington Post blogger.

Derek McMillan
– has a had a story accepted by the American online magazine Rumblefish which is published on 1st February. Thestory is about a school inspector and it might be tinged by the fact Derek is a former teacher with 32 years experience.

Phil Williams
– released his new dystopian adventure novel, “
Aftan Whispers
“, on 16th January, which he discussed in the meetingin November.

January 2018

Jilliana Ranicar-Breese
– was published online in the Wearing Wellbeing newsletter/blog devised by Rebecca Weef Smith. Theillustrated piece was untitled ‘Sultana’s Journey’. she also read her Vignettes on Fridays on BHCR ‘Your voices matters’ at noonwhere I am the co-presenter.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– was longlisted with ‘Dancing Her Black Bones Home’ by the
Willesden Herald International Short StoryPrize

Wendy Tomlins
– had a letter published in The Lady magazine – 8 Dec 2017

December 2017

Sarah Higbee
– her new novel ‘Dying for Space’, which is the sequel to ‘Running out of Space’, will be published on December 14thand will feature on Lola’s Blog Tours from that date onward.

November 2017

Kathy Schilbach
– writing as Kate Finnemore, has sold her short story entitled American Dream to The People’s Friend.

Richard Buxton
– his short story collection ‘In the Shadow of the Mountain’ was a finalist in the Sunshot Prose Prize.

Liz Eastwood
– Liz was the star guest on Your Voice Matters, a Brighton and Hove Community Radio (BHRC) show on 6th October2017. Also Liz took second prize in the poetry section of the Shoreham Word Fest Slam

October 2017

Kathy Schilbach
– writing as Kate Finnemore, has sold three short stories to The People’s Friend: That Summer in Greece, AutumnLeaves, and The Gift.

Richard Buxton
– short story, Disunion, was published in September as part of the ‘Distant Echoes’ collection produced by theHistorical Novel Society.

September 2017

Richard Buxton
– finished 3rd in this year’s Exeter Story Prize.

Pat Hopper
– her children’s novel “The Urban Witch” has just been published on Amazon.

Tracy Fells
– came 2nd in Flash500 quarterly flash comp (winning £200, not a bad return for 500 words!).

Kathy Schilbach
– writing as Katie Finnemore, has had her short story Mirror Image accepted by the Australian magazine That’sLife.

Phil Williams
– his TV Pilot screenplay “Brutal Tower” has reached the Quarter Finals of The Finish Line Script Competition.

Members’ Successes 2016/17

July 2017

Alison Gilby
– writing as Alison Eatwell – Pen & Sword will be publishing my history book ‘Crime, Clemency & Consequence inBritain 1821-39′ in October ’17.

Phil Williams
– has had 2 short stories (“The Wrong Way” and “Cull of the Leshak”) shortlisted for the horror anthology “Twisted 50:Volume 2”.

June 2017

Tracy Fells
– On 30 March she was announced as Regional winner of the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. That’s the UK,Canada & Europe region if you haven’t been following the competition. We wish her the best for the Overall Winner announcementin Singapore on 30 June.

Richard Buxton
– was a finalist in the latest fiction contest run my New Millennium Writngs of Knoxville for his story ‘Little Brothers,’the first time he has been short-listed for a US based competition.

Stella Whitelaw
– has had two books published in May. Dangerous Shadows – Endeavour Press and The other is A Rose NamedVengeance – Tirgearr Publishing.

May 2017

Kathy Schilbach
– (pen name Katie Finnemore) has sold her short story Murder Most Fowl to The People’s Friend. Her novelentitled Impossible Love will be published as a My Weekly Pocket Novel on July 4th.

Dave Simpson
– read some of his recent poetry and gave a paper on his experiences as a cancer patient to a University ofBrighton international conference on life-writing on March 29th 2017.

Richard Buxton
– his first novel, ‘Whirligig’, was published in April and is available on Amazon and other platforms. He has alsopublished his Exeter Prize short story ‘Battle Town’ as a stand alone ebook on Amazon.

April 2017

Kathy Schilbach
– has had two short stories ‘The Road to Faraway’ and ‘Silver Screen dreams’ accepted for publication in ThePeople’s Friend.

March 2017

Jan Henley
– The Little Theatre by the Sea by Rosanna Ley is published by Quercus Books in hardback (March 17th 2017) and inpaperback 1st June 2017.

Alison Hawes
– has been commissioned to write an early non-fiction reader for Collins Education.

Phil Williams
– has just launched a
new website
for his self-published SFF fiction.

February 2017

Alison Hawes
– commissioned to write 12 early readers for OUP Education.

Richard Buxton
– his story ‘Lemonade Day’ was published in Issue 30 of Firstwriter e-zine at Firstwriter.com.

January 2017

Margaret Mounsdon
– Large print rights sold to Love Will Find A Way and her latest pocket novel entitled Hungry For Love hasbeen accepted by People’s Friend. Publication date 16 March 2017.

October 2016

Julie Coffin
– (writing as Rebecca Bennett) – novel MIDSUMMER MAGIC accepted for publication in large print by F.A. Thorpe(Ulverscroft).

September 2016

Alison Hawes
– commissioned to write three more beginner readers for an international reading programme published byCambridge University Press.

Sue Iles-Jonas
– (writing as Lucy Rutherford) has her crime novel ‘A Bunch of Lies’ published in paperback and Ebook available onAmazon and indie bookshops including City Books Hove.

Margaret Mounsdon
– sold her latest novella Love Will Find A Way to People’s Friend Pocket Novels.
Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– ‘Where Things Come From’, first published by Ether Books 2014, is excerpted in the August 2016 MensaMagazine.

Beryl Fleming
– 1st Prize, Society of Women Writers & Journalists Competition for the first 200 words of a short story (making thereader want to hear ‘what happened next’).

Members’ Successes 2015 – 2016

July 2016

Rose Bray
– 1st Prize (216 entries) at Binsted Arts Festival, for her poem Raising the Bowman.

Richard Buxton
– his short story ‘The Bred Man’ won the Nivalis Short Story Competition run by Fabula press and will appear intheir anthology later this summer.

Julie C. Round
– ” A Lesson for the Teacher” a 1960’s romance was published on 1st June in paperback with an ebook to follow.

Margaret Mounsdon
– Festival Fever. Large print rights sold to Thorpe.

Sarah Higbee
– Has had a short story – ‘Miranda’s Tempest’ published in an anthology called Eve of War, published by Fox SpiritBooks.

June 2016

Wendy Tomlins
– has had a letter published in The Lady magazine.

Jill Taylor
– Ebook “Culture Shock” (psychological suspense) by J Kefford (pseudonym) published on May 20th, now widelyavailable.

May 2016

Jan Henley
– Last Dance in Havana by Rosanna Ley is published by Quercus Books May 19th 2016. Rosanna’s books have nowbeen published in thirteen different territories outside of the UK.

Margaret Mounsdon
– her short story Flowers For The Teacher sold to People’s Friend.

Julie Coffin
– (writing as Rebecca Bennett) her novel ‘Haunting Shadows’ republished in large print by F A Thorpe in their LinfordRomance Library and her short story “A Traditional Gardener” has been accepted for People’s Friend.

April 2016

Nina Tucknott
– Letter in the Spring 2016 issue of Landscape magazine.

Tracy Fells
– has passed her MA in Creative Writing with Distinction and has the Star Letter in Writing Magazine (April issue).

Margaret Mounsdon
– Sold Large Print rights to Thorpe for Love In A Mist.

Alison Hawes
– Alison and her book for young readers, A letter to New Zealand get a mention on BBC Breakfast and in theTelegraph online.

Julie Coffin
– (writing as Rebecca Bennett) – novel ‘The Touch of Thistledown’ republished in large print by F.A.Thorpe in theirLinford Romance Library series.

March 2016

Julie Coffin
– has also had a short story accepted for Woman’s Weekly and (writing as Rebecca Bennett) her Novel “Mists of Time”republished in large print by F.A.Thorpe in their Linford Romance Series.

Wendy Tomlins
– has had a letter published in The Lady magazine

Sue Iles-Jonas
– has had her short story ‘Forget me Not’ published in the second crime anthology by Crooked Holster on the themeof Ritual.

Nina Tucknott
– has had three articles in Flora International

February 2016

Margaret Mounsdon
– Sold to People’s Friend Pocket Novels – Festival Fever.

Sue Ajax-Lewis
– two pieces sent to the Telegraph, about her horse and dog have made it into a collection of such stories and havebeen published as a paperback.

Alison Hawes
– Out now, an American edition of her OUP title, The School Trip, published by Kaeden Books. Also, just published.Six infant reading books for a new series of international readers from Cambridge University Press, entitled; A Hot Day, TheEnormous Watermelon, Jamila Finds a Friend, Leela can Skate, Packing my Bag, The Last Lemon and At the market and twofurther books in OUP’s CODE series of Infant readers, entitled Air Spin and Thrill Seekers.

Richard Buxton
– won the Bedford International Writing Competition this month. read his entry at
http://bedfordwritingcompetition.co.uk/cgi-bin/bwc16-winners.cgi
He is also January’s showcase author at The Literary Consultancy.
https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Richard-Buxton-Showcase.pdf

Tracy Fells
– will be reading her short story ‘Ancient Wing’ at Rattle Tales (The Brunswick, Hove) on 11 Feb.

January 2016

Alex Medwell
– Has had his poem Darlink published on the Worthing World of Words page in The Worthing Herald on 10th Dec2015. My painted portrait of my wife Wendy was displayed along with it.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– ‘North Star’, a flash fiction 21st century fairy tale, was published by Every Day Fiction in their Decemberone-time invitational.
http://everydayfiction.com/north-star-by-suzanne-conboy-hill/
An audio version is also available
http://conboyhillfiction.com/2015/12/16/north-star/
. She will be visiting lecturer to the MA in Creative Writing at Brighton universitythis semester.

Richard Buxton
– is shortlisted for the Bedford International Short Story Competition.

December 2015

Richard Buxton
– has a story published Alt Hist 8, a series specialising in historical fiction.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– has had ‘The Spooking of Einstein’, a sci fi flash piece, published in Urban Fantasist’s Grievous Angel thisweek
http://www.urbanfantasist.com/latest-sci-fi–fantasy-poetry–flash-fiction/spooky-einstein-new-flash-fiction.

Also her shortscience fiction/humour story, ‘When Gliese Met Glasgow (and Muira made a mint)’ was a finalist in Pen 2 Paper, a competition runby the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities.

Malcolm Welshman
– Has had a short story, ‘Going Crackers at Christmas’ in The People’s Friend Christmas Special and a featureon dogs on the beach in a January issue. Also, a short story, ‘A Goose Called Gertie’ in Pets’ Magazine. and one called ‘Fixing Felix’in Cat World.

Margaret Mounsdon
– was awarded 3rd place in the SWWJ Christmas Short Story completion.

Alison Hawes
– has had an Infant non fiction book accepted for publication by OUP.

November 2015

Rose Bray
– was the winner of the Shoreham Wordfest short story slam.

Liz Eastwood
– won the Shoreham Wordfest Poetry Competition.

Richard Buxton
– won the Exeter Story Prize during October and his winning story, Battle Town, is expected to be published byCreative Writing Matters in the spring.

Tracy Fells
– her short story ‘Through the Arched Window’ came 2nd in Writer’s Forum monthly short story competition (to bepublished in issue 171).

Julie Coffin
– had a short story in People’s Friend Autumn Special and her novella ‘The Touch of Thistledown’ is to be re-publishedin large print by Ulverscroft in April 2016.

Wendy Greene
– has won a Star letter in Choice Magazine October issue for her letter about bus passes.

Margaret Mounsdon
– has had a letter published in The Lady – 2 October 2015.

October 2015

Alison Hawes
– Out now-Get the Look! published by Badger Learning in their Famous Faces series, for teenage reluctant readersand a Chinese edition of her OUP title, Arctic Hero; the story of Matthew Henson, has just been published, too.

Janet Rogers
– has had a travel piece included in the Bradt travel book, ‘To Oldly Go’ tales of intrepid travel by the over 60s.

Nina Tucknott
– has had three articles feature in the autumn issue of Flora International magazine

Margaret Mounsdon
– Her People’s Friend Pocket Novel entitled Love In A Mist has been accepted

Tracy Fells
– Her story ‘Gretel and the Chocolate Wolf’ will be read and performed at New Venture Theatre’s Folk & Fairy Tale eventon 16 October.

Sarah Palmer
– is being awarded an MLitt in Creative Writing with Distinction from the University of Glasgow.

September 2015

Alison Hawes
– has Korean editions of three of her OUP infant reading books out now, an Australian edition of another of her OUPreading books has just been published and she has been commissioned, by OUP, to write a non fiction book for young readers.

Pat Hopper
– has had a short story longlisted for Frome Festival competition. The short story is also to be featured on a FromeFMradio programme.

Richard Buxton
– has had a short story picked up by the American Magazine ‘Alt Hist’. It should be published around the end of theyear.

Members’ Successes – 2014/15

July 2015

Margaret Mounsdon
– Large print rights sold to Thorpe for Finn’s Forest and Love Among The Arts.

Alison Hawes
– A sixth and a seventh infant reading book accepted by Cambridge University Press.

Richard Buxton
– finished runner-up in the Thresholds International Feature Writing Competition. My article, on Tim Gautreaux, can be seen at
http://blogs.chi.ac.uk/shortstoryforum/rediscovering-the-deep-south

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– recent successes include: flash fiction – ‘Control’ shortlisted (Finalist) in Mash Stories competition May/June2015 mashstories.com/previouslypublished/control, flash fiction – ‘Albert’s teeth’, WSW flash winner in 2014, published by The LosAngeles Review of Los Angeles issue 9, June 2015. www.robindunn.com/LAROLA9.pdf, flash fiction – ‘The Collector’, published byUrban Fantasist’s Grievous Angel webzine, June 2015. www.urbanfantasist.com/poetry–flash-fiction and Short Story – ‘Dancing HerBlack Bones Home’ to be published by Resurrection House’s Bahamut literary journal in December 2015.

June 2015

Richard Buxton
– has been shortlisted in the Thresholds International Feature Writing Competition.

Rose Bray
– has a story in People’s Friend.

Julie Round
– her latest publication “Never Pretend” a story of music and lies, was published on April 29th.

May 15

Rosanna Ley
– ‘The Saffron Trail’ is published by Quercus 21st May 2015. Rights have also been sold to Germany, Portugal andNorway.

Rose Bray
– was commended for her poem The Hermit in the West Sussex section of Slipstream Poetry Competition.

Alison Hawes
– All six of my Teacher’s Guides, to the WOW! Facts series of non fiction books for reluctant readers from BadgerLearning, are out now. Also commissioned to write another book for teenage reluctant readers for Badger Learning.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– Her flash piece ‘Here The Magic Must Be’ was a Finalist in the Flash Fiction Chronicles String-O-Tencompetition.

Nina Tucknott
– secured the job as Editor for Flora International magazine.

April 2015

Pam Weaver
– has a short story ‘Chopsticks’ in April Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special and commissioned to write novella to bepublished for the Christmas market.

Margaret Mounsdon
– is the winner of the Lady magazine 50 Great Literary Ladies comp. – she chose aunt Agatha from the Bertie Wooster novels.

Richard Buxton
– was awarded an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Chichester University and he won the Writers’Forum Monthly Short Story Competition with his story, Little Round Top.

Malcolm Welshman
– has been commissioned by The People’s Friend to write a weekly veterinary tale for six months and hisnovel, Pets Aplenty, has been nominated for The People’s Book Prize 2015.

Nina Tucknott
– has two articles entitled ‘Wedded Seaside Bliss’ and ‘Florimania @ Hampton Court’ both accepted by FloraInternational for their Summer issue.

Sarah Palmer
– has two stories being published in the Crooked Holster crime fiction anthology next month.

Alison Hawes
– Out now are Prehistoric Record Breakers and The Weird World of Work in the WOW Facts Series for reluctantreaders published by Badger Learning.

Sue Iles-Jonas
– Short story ‘Say it With Flowers’ selected by competition for publication in Crooked Holster’s crime anthology dueto be published April 2015.

March 15

Alison Hawes
– Three of Alison’s infant readers for OUP to be published in Korea too, by children’s publisher EPLIS. Four ofAlison’s children’s English Workbooks from 2003 to be updated and re-launched by Anness Publishing.

Sarah Palmer
– Creative non-fiction piece What I Think About, When I Think About Writing to be published in the launch issue ofThe Atelier Project.

Margaret Mounsdon
– Letter printed in The Lady magazine.

Janet Rogers
– has had the following articles published. Choose the right verbs – March – Writing Magazine. A travel piece aboutcycling in France – March – CTC Cycle magazine A travel article about the salt marches of Brittany – March – The Oldie.

Jan Henley
– ‘Return to Mandalay’ by Rosanna Ley has been shortlisted for the RONA book of the year in the ‘epic romantic novel’category by the RNA (Romantic Novelists Association.) The award ceremony takes place in London on March 16th.

February 2015

Margaret Mounsdon
– Finn’s Forest sold to People’s Friend Pocket Novels.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– ‘Albert’s Teeth’, which won the recent WSW flash competition, has been picked up by the Los AngelesReview of Los Angeles even though that’s not where it was submitted! It will probably appear in June 2015.’Terminus’, which alsomade its first appearance at WSW, is out in Fine Linen, a subscription print literary journal. ‘Puddles Like Pillows’, published byZouch Magazine, then a finalist in the Lascaux short fiction competition, is out in the Lascaux Prize 2014 anthology in both print and digital form.

January 2015

Nina Tucknott
– Article accepted for Flora International Magazine for their Spring issue.

Alison Hawes
– commissioned to write another early fiction reader for Cambridge University Press, two more Teacher Guides totwo new series of non-fiction books for teenager reluctant readers and one fiction and one non-fiction early reader for OUP.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– has been awarded an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University

December 2014

Alison Hawes
– Just published; three non-fiction books for Badger Learning- Daredevils, Nail fashion and Body Art. Commissionedto write two more non–fiction titles for the same series for teenage reluctant readers. Also out now, Chinese editions of three earlyreaders for OUP; My Dog Needs a Bone, The Best Sandcastle and The School Trip.

Richard Buxton
– second place in the Salopian Annual Open Poetry Competition for my poem ‘Muscovies.’ It’ll be published in theSalopian winter magazine.

Della Griffiths
– Has completed this years NaNoWriMo and has her certificate to prove it. Her word total was 50,720.

November 2014

Margaret Mounsdon
– Large print rights to Angela’s Return Home sold to Thorpe.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– Puddles Like Pillows, her very short story first published in Zouch Magazine in 2013 has reached the Finalsof the Lascaux Review Short Fiction competition earlier this year. Now Lascaux have put it forward as one of the two stories theycan submit annually for the Best of the Net anthology.

Alison Hawes
– has been commissioned to write three fiction and one non-fiction readers for Cambridge University Press and hasjust published, two non-fiction readers for the education market; Animals in Danger and Gladstone’s Lost Cities for Oxford UniversityPress. She has also been invited to send in ideas for non–fiction titles for teenage reluctant readers for Badger Publishing.

Ian Black
– had his 1 Act stage play – Visiting Friends – read at the November 2014 meeting of Sussex Playwrights in Brighton.

Malcom Welshman
– has had a Bird mimics feature in the Daily Mail. Articles in the Western Gazette, Western Morning News,West Somerset Free Press, Somerset County Magazine, Bournemouth Echo, Veterinary Practice, Your Cat. plus two short stories inPeople’s Friend.

Rose Bray
– had a short story in People’s Friend at the end of September and at the Shoreham Wordfest Slam, she got highlycommended for her short story. The chairman of the judges was Simon Brett.

October 2014

Julie Round
– her first book, Lane’s End, has just been accepted by Calibre in audio version and her last novel, Never Run Away isnow out as an e-book.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– ‘Emily Buckingham and the Major’s Madam’ – a short story published by Ether Books September 2014 andavailable as a paid download for smartphones and tablets.

Alison Hawes
– is this month’s featured author at www.newresourcesforschools.co.uk

Julie Coffin
– has had a short story accepted by Woman’s Weekly.

September 2014

Margaret Mounsdon
– Sold Large Print rights to The Swallow House Summer.

Nina Tucknott
– Triple design article accepted for Flora International for their winter issue.

Tracy Fells
– Short story ‘Small Miracles’ to be published in 2014 Bridge House Anthology (out Nov/Dec) and Runner-up in RetreatWest’s short story competition with ‘WHOOSH’, judged by Alison Moore (theme was ‘fear’).

Alison Hawes
– gave a morning of writing workshops to pupils at Steyning Grammar School in July and has been commissioned tocontribute to a new literacy project for young children by Cambridge University Press.

Sarah Higbee and Sarah Palmer
– gave a creative writing workshops to groups of 11 to 14 year olds at Hove Park School on thelast day of the summer term – and (just about) lived to tell the tale.

Malcolm Welshman
– Daily Mail May 16th Grief in animals, May 26th Never mess with a swallow, June 10th The vet who dares toadmit: ‘I hate cats’, June 23rd How Cyril the squirrel stole my heart and his third pet novel in the Prospect House series, PetsAplenty, published 29th August.

July 2014

Margaret Mounsdon
– People’s Friend have accepted her latest pocket novel – Angela’s Return Home.

Ian Black
– Has had his pantomime Cinderella – a new version published online –
www.playscripts.online

Tracy Fells
– ‘8:38’ published as part of National Flash Fiction Day’s Flash Flood Journal. Shortlisted with ‘Feeding Love’ inWorcester LitFest Flash Fiction competition.

Susanne Conboy-Hill
– participated in the Ether Books challenge – Eight themes, eight days, max 500 words, 24 hours to get themin – these are her submissions:
Day One
– Adventure: The space between thinking and doing. A door opens in the space between thinking and doing and a youngwoman steps through. Her body has no shape, her head is empty, her eyes are pale and dilute.
Day Two
– Hats: Pretending not to see. When Jodie put on her magic hat, she became invisible …She ran, crawled, dived, and shotenemies.
Day Three
– Time: When. When you don’t have any left because something in you stopped working. When you have too much andit hangs like wet blankets in your head and over your eyes. When someone steals it by gossiping …
Day Four
– Desire: Where Things Come From. Chocolates – dark and bitter and containing surprises such as a chilli-coatedscorpion or a gingered locust.
Day Five
– Risk. The People Indoors. ‘Boring,’ says The Charlie. He’s The Paul’s opposite but the upshot is the same, pulling thedecision away from absolute certainty back to something more lively. He rarely has any ideas of his own though, these are Carole’sprerogative.
Day Six
– Tragedy: When you can’t go on. Awards ceremony. Posh frock; pale peach …
Day Seven
– Family: Daniel’s Level. ‘The army? Him?’ Jacqui is stunned. Sophie though, is intrigued. Steve doesn’t look army, helooks – gamey.
Day Eight
– Song and Dance. We’re in Jackson, me and Jude, for the show. I have a two-day beard and my feet hurt like hell. I slingthem up on the table and lean back.
To read these and other stories from Ether Books you can get the app from their website –
http://www.etherbooks.com
Susanne’sstories can be found at –
http://catalog.etherbooks.com/Authors/582
June 2014

Tracy Fells
– Shortlisted (5th time!) in Flash 500 competition, shortlisted in Scripted4 (Worthing WOW Festival) short playcompetition and her short story ‘Household Gods’ has made the shortlist of 2014 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize.

Alison Hawes
– Commissioned to write a fourth Teacher’s Guide to a series of Non fiction books for reluctant readers by BadgerPublishing and commissioned to write further material for a language project for BBC Worldwide.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– ‘Puddles Like Pillows’, first published by Zouch Magazine in 2013, was a finalist in the Lascaux annualShort Fiction prize and is included in the anthology (on line
http://lascauxreview.com/2014/05/puddles-like-pillows/
and in print);’Cover Art’, a leg-crossing piece read at the open mic a while ago, is in Full of Crow May 2014
http://www.fullofcrow.com/fiction/archivedstories/cover-art/
and ‘How the Fat Fairies Saved the World’, is in Zouch Magazine, May26th 2014 – and pretty much timed to hit the actual GMT in the tale!
http://zouchmagazine.com/fiction-how-the-fat-fairies-saved-the-world-dr-suzanne-conboy-hill-short-story-month/#.U4L4RfldXNk

Jan Henley
– ‘Return to Mandalay’ by Rosanna Ley (Jan Henley) is published by Quercus 22nd May 2014 and ‘The Villa’ byRosanna Ley is published by Quercus USA in August 2014. The e-book reached number 1 on Amazon contemporary bestsellerschart for one heady week in April!

May 2014

Julie Coffin
– Short story ‘Could It Be Magic?’ in The People’ Friend 6th April.

Tracy Fells
– A winner in the Five ‘n Ten international stage-writing competition – 5 min monologue will be performed in June (inWales) and ‘Household Gods’ shortlisted for 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Alison Hawes
– Talk about books for reluctant readers given to parents and students at Steyning School; Arabic and Chineseversions of six of Alison’s infant reading books to be produced for HarperCollins; commissioned to write another non fiction book forteenagers with reading difficulties for Badger Publishing and commissioned to write a third Teacher’s Guide to a series of non fictionbooks for reluctant readers for Badger Publishing.

Pat Hopper
– has been long-listed in the HomeStart Bridgewater short story competition.

April 2014

Rose Bray
– Winner of the February Love poem in The Worthing Herald and winner of the West Sussex Section of SlipstreamPoets Competition.

Margaret Mounsdon
– Sold her latest novella The Swallow House Summer to People’s Friend.

Pat Hopper
– has been long-listed in Labello Press International short story competition.

Janet Rogers
– was a runner up in the Guardian Travel Writing Competition just before Christmas for an article about a visit to Yorkshire. Won the Daily Telegraph Justback travel competition in February for a piece about a skiing holiday in the Dolomites andhas also had an article printed in the spring edition of This England about the ancient yews of Kingley Vale, near Chichester.

Malcom Welshman
– has been invited to speak at three Literary Festivals later this year: Penzance Literary Festival 16-20th July,Porlock Arts Festival 25-28th September and Mere Literary Festival 13-19th October. Also Under my dog’s name, he writes amonthly blog ‘Dora’s Diary’ on www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk/links.htm

Tracy Fells
– Story accepted for The Siren Journal’s debut anthology, ‘Fugue’, of Contemporary Literary Fiction (to be publishedJuly). Flash piece accepted for Neon’s flash fiction issue ‘Battery Pack’ (out June). Story ‘Making the grade’ sold to People’s Friend.

Alison Hawes
– Invited to give a talk at Steyning School to parents and children about books for reluctant readers.

Susanne Conboy-Hill
– her flash fiction story ‘Puddles Like Pillows’ published in in Zouche Magazine last August is a finalist in theLascaux Short Fiction competition and will be published in their 2014 anthology.

March 2014

Margaret Mounsdon
– has sold the Large Print rights of The Power of Love.

Julie Coffin
– has had a short story ‘A Froggy Tale’ accepted for The People’s Friend.

Tracy Fells
– has had a short story published in Holdfast magazine and was shortlisted in GKBC Crime short story competition.

Alison Hawes
– has two non-fiction books for reluctant readers, “Music and Fashion” and “Hidden Treasure,” out now from BadgerPublishing; a Teacher’s Guide to the WOW Facts Series One, also out now from Badger Publishing. She has been commissioned towrite another teacher’s guide to a series of books for reluctant readers and to write two non–fiction books for teenagers with readingdifficulties. Plus Chinese and Swedish versions of Alison’s retellings of three traditional tales (The King and His Wish, The BigCarrot, The Lazy Fox) for OUP are Out now.
February 2014

Sarah Palmer
– has had a 75-word story published on Paragraph Planet, four six-worders on Morgen Bailey’s writing blog and beenlonglisted for the Exeter Writers Novel Prize.

Tracy Fells
– 2nd place in HE Bates short story competition with ‘Ancient Wing’ and an article published in Feb issue Writing Magazine.

Alison Hawes
– has been commissioned to contribute to an English Language project for BBC Worldwide.

January 2014

Margaret Mounsdon
– Two short stories sold to Alfie Dog fiction entitled Run For Your Life and These Foolish Things.

Tracy Fells
– Special mention in Yellow Room Magazine Flash Fiction competition with ‘Tantric Twister’ and longlisted in Flash500novel opening competition.

Alison Hawes
– Has been commissioned to write a Teacher’s Handbook to accompany a series of non-fiction for 8 to 14 year oldswho struggle with their reading.

December 2013

Tracy Fells
– Winner of Hysteria 2013 short story competition with ‘Fibonacci’s Tree’; Winner of Christchurch Writers’ Radio Playcompetition and runner-up in Article competition; Shortlisted in Inktears Flash Fiction competition.

Margaret Mounsdon
– The Power of Love by Margaret Mounsdon sold to People’s Friend Pocket Novels and a short story entitledRespect by Margaret Mounsdon sold to Alfie Dog Fiction.

Jackie Harvey
-Two ‘flash fiction’ stories (50 and 100) words in The World of Words in Worthing Herald.

November 2013

Wendy Tomlins
– had a letter published in The Lady on 6th September.

Malcolm Welshman
– A short story in People’s Friend entitled Never a Cross Word. Started a monthly dog blog – Dora’s Diary onwww.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk under Pet Care and Started a monthly vet column on
www.maturetimes.co.uk

Christine Bleakley
– a short story ‘Saturday morning in Stitches’ in “Irelands Own” Magazine.

Bob Wragg
– Autobiography, ‘Bobby on the Beat’ written in the name of ‘Bob Dixon’ has been published by Michael O’Mara BooksLtd.

Tracy Fells
– Highly Commended in Ifanca Helene James Short Story competition and a letter published in Writing Magazine.

Rose Bray
– A piece in Writers’ News about writing letters to a child (first published in this newsletter back in the Spring).

Paul Doran
– Poem of the Week in Worthing Herald – 17 October 2013.

Wendy Greene
– has been nominated for a Woman In Arts Award in the local newspaper group’s Woman of the Year Awards, forservices to the arts in Sussex.

Alison Hawes
– Five more fiction titles (Rat Trap Thief, Kidnapped, Friendly Fire, Football Match, The Green Cloud) in Pearson’s“Rapid” series for struggling readers, out this month.

October 2013

Julie Coffin
– novella SHADOWS FROM THE PAST accepted for large print hard and soft cover by AudioGo (Chivers Press) andnovella WEB OF FEAR now available in large print soft cover by AudioGo (Chivers Press) and ebook.

Margaret Mounsdon
– Large Print Rights sold for Fit For Love by Margaret Mounsdon

Tracy Fells
– Runner-up in Northampton Writers’ Flash Fiction Competition.

Ian Black
– Directed Heart’s Desire by Caryl Churchill at New Venture Theatre , Brighton.

September 2013

Margaret Mounsdon
– Fit For Love by Margaret Mounsdon accepted by People’s Friend Pocket Novels and a short story sold toWoman’s Weekly entitled Holly Go Lightly.

Sue Ajax-Lewis
– Has had a short story accepted by Norah McGrath for Take a Break or Fiction Feast!

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– ‘Oars for Legs’ is out on Full of Crow now (July 2013) and WSW heard it first! I read it a couple of monthsago and raised a giggle instead of the usual utter bafflement. Plus Cat Nav is read by the most excellent Folly Blaine whopronounces ‘prestidigitator’ so you don’t have to – on everydayfiction.com

Tracy Fells
– Runner-up in Writer’s Retreat Short Story competition (theme: a pet) with ‘Monsters’..

Alison Hawes
– Six titles out now in the O.U.P Project X Series; Alien Adventures for Primary Schools. Also out now in the OxfordReading Tree series for Primary Schools, a story in each of the 3 following collections of traditional tales; The Man, the Boy and theDonkey and other stories, The Tortoise and the Hare and other stories, The Gingerbread Man and other stories.

Julie Coffin
– Her short story ‘Castle Shadows – in My Weekly 6th-12th August issue.

July 2013

Sue Wright
– has sold one short story to Take a Break’s Fiction Feast and two stories to The Weekly News, and her short storycollection ‘Six Stupid Sheep and Other Yarns’ is now published by Alfie Dog Fiction as a paperback.

Alison Hawes
– commissioned to write two non-fiction books for 7 year olds for OUP Education; commissioned to write two non-fiction books for teenagers with reading difficulties for Badger Learning; 3 previously published fiction and 3 non-fiction titles forPrimary schools to be published in new ebook versions by Pearson for the Caribbean literacy market; Two books for six year olds;“Living in a Castle” and “Exploring London”, published by Pearson.

Nicki Sheeran
– Has written a chapter for the West Sussex Heritage Booklet ‘A Very Poor Attendance Day’. Ian Black – Directed 2plays – `Beginners’ Guide to Murder` for Rustington Players – June 13 and `Fairway to Heaven’ for Lancing Repertory Players – July13.

Terence Brand
– his 150,000 word novel, ‘The Sound of Pirates’ will be published on the Alfiedog website in mid July.’

Tracy Fells
– Flash story ‘Tantric Twister’ published on CafeLit and in Flash Flood Journal (for National-Flash-Fiction-Day 22 June);Highly Commended in The Yellow Room Spring short story competition.

June 2013

Pam Weaver
– her third saga Pack Up Your Troubles comes out on June 20th.

Tracy Fells
– Shortlisted in Writers’ Forum monthly competition; Longlisted with one act play for Kenneth Branagh Drama Awardand short story ‘Gretel and the Chocolate Wolf’ published in Rattle Tales Anthology (out 23 May).

May 2013

Della Griffiths
– has had a small editorial/report about a charity event “Worthing’s Secret Artists” accepted in the Worthing Daily, anew on-line news feed about Worthing – her first.

Julie Coffin
– ‘WEB OF FEAR’ published in large print hardback for Chivers by AudioGo Ltd.

John Eddleston
– Has his play ‘Stage Struck’ being performed at The Barn – 22 to 25 May and he has been commissioned by Penand Sword to write three books on the Great War of 1914 to 1918, covering Southampton, Winchester and Chichester.

Tracy Fells
– Runner-up Reader’s Digest 100-word-story competition (published in MAY issue), Flash story ‘Top Deck Tilly’published on Flash Flood Journal (associated with National-Flash-Fiction-Day) and Short story ‘Twinkle, twinkle’ published in AlfieDog’s Essence of Humour collection (published 15 Apr).

Wendy Greene
– has had a collection of poems called ‘You Can’t Wrap Your Fish In The Internet’ published.

April 2013

Tracy Fells
– Invited to read a short story at Rattle Tales evening in Hove. – Feature ‘Prosetry in motion’ published in WritingMagazine (April issue) – Longlisted in Microfiction and Essay categories for The New Writer 2012 Prose Prize.

Sue Wright
– has sold two stories to Take a Break’s Fiction Feast and one story to My Weekly.

Pam Weaver
– Short story in Woman’s Weekly fiction Feast (March) & story sold to My Weekly. Bath Times & Nursery Rhymesnumber 9 in Sunday Times best sellers list.

John Eddleston
– will be making an appearance on Murder Casebook with Fred Dineage in November, talking about the case of James Hanratty.

Ian Black
– Last month he directed a play at the New Venture Theatre in Brighton. – he has just started as a local theatre reviewerfor www.whatsonstage.com

March 2013

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– Accounting for Nitwits – Every Day Fiction
http://www.everydayfiction.com/accounting-for-nitwits-by-suzanne-conboy-hill/
& Stardust, Sunshine, Leeds, and LA – Ether Books.

Alison Hawes
– commissioned to write third story set in WW1 for 9-11 year olds with reading difficulties, commissioned to write twonon fiction books for junior readers for OUP & short play for six year olds; “Steg and the Tar Pit” published by Pearson, out now.

Jan Henley
– BAY OF SECRETS by Rosanna Ley (Jan Henley) – published by Quercus Books. THE VILLA by Rosanna Ley is to bepublished by Quercus in the US & FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND a short story by Rosanna Ley is to be published in the Springaircraft brochure of Jet 2.

Dan Crowley
– Two of his short stories got a ‘commended’ by the editor of Writers Forum, one called ‘Furs’ and the other called’Paulo and Nancy.’

Tracy Fells
– Shortlisted in Flash 500 with Alice in Saunaland’ & Very short story (75 words) published on Paragraph Planet.

Susan Wright
– has sold a short story to Yours magazine and four short stories to The Weekly News.

February 2013

Susan Wright
– has had a collection of short stories published as an e-book by Alfie Dog. The collection of 13 short stories, entitled‘Six Stupid Sheep and other Yarns’ was launched on 21st January.

Tracy Fells
– Short story ‘The Best-Laid Plans’ published in People’s Friend (this story originally came 3rd in WSW’s short storycompetition judged by Pam Weaver).

Dan Crowley
– his poem Palestrina should be in the next edition of Writers’ Forum.

Margaret Mounsdon
– her latest novella ‘Night Music’ has been accepted by My Weekly Story Collection.

Richard Buxton
– has won the Cazart short story competition for January with a story called ‘Slow Gin Skipping’.
http://www.cazart.co.uk/

January 2013

Bob Wragg
– commissioned by the London Publishers Malcolm O’Mara Books to write my autobiography, ‘Bobby on the Beat’,telling of my experiences in the Metropolitan Police in the East End of London in the 1960s. The publication date is provisionally

Sept 2013.

Tracy Fells
– Filler published in Dec issue Writers’ Forum (winning free year’s subscription), Shortlisted in Writers’ Forum monthly short story competition with ‘The Resurrection of Amelia Finn’, Shortlisted in Hysteria Short Story Competition with ‘Midsummer’sEve’.

Sue Iles-Jonas
– Has been asked to write a regular column for ‘Brighton and Hove Actually’ magazine on different aspects ofhypnotherapy, with seasonal/issue aspect. And has also been asked to be a guest writer giving practical hypnotherapy help for drinkrelated problems for Soberistas – a website which helps people regain control of their lives and drink.

December 2012

Leonie Mansell
– Two very successful gigs – Airs and Disgraces hat – 6th October at St. Mary de Haura, in Shoreham as part of theShoreham Wordfest arts festival. 15th October as one of the acts in an Acoustic Showcase concert in the Capitol Theatre inHorsham. 400 people in the audience, and a great reception for our performance.

Margaret Mounsdon
– featured in the Where I Write page Writers’ Forum #133 and a Short story entitled Talking Feet accepted byMy Weekly.

Tracy Fells
– Recorded a short story for The Voice of Progress talking newspaper to celebrate National Short Story Week (12-18Nov) – Winner of Choc-Lit Summer Short Story Competition with ‘Phoenix and Marilyn’, now published on their website.

Julie Coffin
– novella WEB OF FEAR accepted for large print and ebook publication by AudioGo

Sue Ajax-Lewis
– a minor triumph – I have had a short story accepted by Norah McGrath for Fiction Feast.

Wendy Tomlins
– had a letter published in The Lady the 16th November issue.

November 2012

Rose Bray
– A recipe with a small humorous anecdote in the Guardian’s family section. She was thrilled because they get hundredseach week!

Alison Hawes
– Out Now: The Old Lift , published by Badger Learning and twenty five books in My First Phonics series publishedby Pearson. Commissioned to write two stories set in WW1 for 9-11 year olds with reading difficulties

Sue Wright
– I’ve had a letter published in Writers’ Forum magazine (issue 133), which means I’ll receive a lovely Moleskinenotebook.

Sue Ajax Lewis
– Just a small piece in readers’ Digest – but cheering nonetheless!

Wendy Greene
– Nothing for ages then two come along at once – a letter in Radio Times and a poem in Choice magazine.

Tracy Fells
– Story ‘Keep calm and carry on’ sold to The People’s Friend magazine. Short story ‘Fish of the Sea’ published in TheYellow Room Magazine Autumn issue. Winner of The New Writer’s Life-writes competition, story published in Autumn issue TNW112. 2 fillers published in Writers’ Forum newsFront.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill
– Red is for Go – on Roadside Attractions 22/10/12
http://www.evictoriaflynn.com/?p=1732
The Wild Rose and the China Doll – on Full of Crow 17/10/12
http://www.fullofcrow.com/fiction/archivedstories/1012conboyhill/

Julie Coffin
– ‘Web of Fear’ novella published as No. 1 in Suspense genre of Easy Read pocket novels on sale from 18th Octoberuntil 15th November in magazine section of supermarkets and W.H. Smith.

October 2012

Bob Wragg
– My second book is about to be published (The Secret War Diary Of A Worthing Soldier) and I have a Book Signing atWaterstones, Worthing on Saturday 20th October 11am to 1pm.

Terry Brand
– eight stories accepted by the Alfie Dog website.

Alison Hawes
– commissioned to write two stories set in the Middle Ages for young teenagers with reading difficulties and invited tosend in ideas for two more stories for the same series.

Susan Wrigh
t – Two more stories accepted by www.alfiedog.com and has sold two short stories – both to Australian magazines. Astory called ‘Aliens’ sold to the weekly ‘that’s life’ magazine, and a story called ‘Timeslip’ sold to ‘that’s life Fast Fiction’ for theirsummer 2013 edition.

Julie Coffin
– novella ‘WEB OF FEAR’ accepted for My Weekly Pocket Novels.

Daniel Crowley
– A story titled ‘Karate’ will appear soon in an edition of ‘Scribble’ magazine published by Park Publications.

Tracy Fells
– Two articles published in October issue Writing Magazine: Bluebirds over France (Swanwick competition winner) andThe Competition Carousel.
September 2012

Alison Hawes
– commissioned to write a non fiction book for schools about London commissioned to write a non fiction book forschools about Castles and invited to send in ideas for a series of books for junior schoolchildren with reading difficulties.

Rose Bray
– 2nd place in The Write Place modern fairy story competition.

Tracy Fells
– Feature on Flash Fiction published in September issue of Writing Magazine and Short story ‘Just Add’ published inanthology ‘Once Upon a Time:
Collection of Unexpected Fairytales’

Margaret Mounsdon
– Has sold the Large Print rights to Love Triumphant and People’s Friend have accepted her first two partnovella entitled Love Among The Arts, due out 24 January and 7 February 2012

Julie Coffin
– ‘A Matter of Chance’ published in large print softcover by AudioGoLtd. (Chivers Press) on 1st August.