The Waverton Good Book Award was started by Wendy Smedley and Gwen Goodhew in Waverton, a small village outside Chester in England. Their aim was to find fifty or so debut novels, written by British citizens. They wanted to encourage reading in their village as well as encourage new writers. REAL READERS They recruited people […]
Author Archive | Grace Jolliffe
I dream of walking
When I originally wrote this piece I was too down to press publish. At the time I was wearing the dreaded ‘Beckham’ boot. This not for the fashion conscious. It is a hideous surgical boot made famous by David Beckham, the footballer. I don’t play football but in 2007, I fell while out walking and […]
Welcome to my world
Some writers blog and write about the ‘real world.’ While others prefer just to write fiction. There’s nothing wrong with either choice – it’s all words, sentences, paragraphs and pages. It’s up to the individual writer to decide how we order these words and which world we describe with them. Of course, much of fiction […]
These are children
I am confused at the moment. If I were to judge by social media I would say we care more for animals than children. Post something about cruelty to cats, or dogs and you will see huge engagement. By that I mean people liking, sharing and commenting – donating. But, post something about what’s happening […]