Hi
I’m Carol, I’m the host of the Writers @ group
I joined the writing group in 2018, and have been a regular attendee since then. When Covid hit, I organised weekly Zoom meetings to keep the group going, and took over as the organiser. After Covid we met in the Park a few times, until we could go back to regular meetings.
We set up our new meetings at Manor Farm on Willerby Road and they have been our hosts ever since.
I’ve been writing since forever, or it feels like it sometimes! I grew up reading science fiction and fantasy, and my own writing has always explored the question of ‘what if’.
My work recently has been in the paranormal and urban fantasy genres with my latest books moving into the paranormal romance. I am currently working on a six book series set in York which will be MM Paranormal Romance.
I live in the East Riding Yorkshire in the UK with my husband, a fellow author, and our three, sometimes four! cats, who rule the house.
Our members
Jennifer Gilmour
Jennifer is the website editor for the Writers @ group, please contact her directly for any website-related queries: contact@jennifergilmour.com
About:
Jennifer Gilmour is an author and advocate for women in abusive relationships, using her own experiences of domestic abuse as a catalyst to bring awareness and help others. Jennifer has published two publications, Isolation Junction and Clipped Wings which have both been Amazon Best Sellers and received awards. Jennifer speaks at events across the UK and continues to raise awareness through her blog posts, public speaking, radio interviews and social media.
Youth Work NatDipHE & JNC Level 2 (University of Chester)
Most Informative Blogger Award 2018 (Bloggers Bash Annual Awards)
UK & European Award for using Social Media for Good 2019 (Social Day: Social Media Marketing Awards)
#SBS Winner 2020 (Theo Paphitis)
Jennifer says: “Together we are Louder”.
Steve Kerry
Steve Kerry was born in the UK in 1960, but moved to Australia at the age of 5. A teacher once declared if there were two ways to do something, and everybody was doing it one way, he would be the one to find the other way. He was always a storyteller and preferred reading to sport, which made him something of an outsider in Australian culture.
Jobs included draftsman, postman, motorcycle courier, process worker, and metal fabrication storeman before settling into admin and clerical work for various government departments. In 1990 he toured the UK on a motorcycle, as soon as he got back to Australia he quit his job and bought a one-way ticket.
Storytelling was still calling and he attended a writing workshop run by Carol Ann Green who he later married. Interests in art and landscape photography were cut short in 2009 when a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease took him out of the workforce. He was given 3-5 years to live, 15 years later he is in the slow lane but still going.
His first book was a collection of short stories titled “Legends and Bad Dreams” and he has just finished the first volume of “The Dragons of Bridlington Bookshop”, an intended trilogy for Young Adults. He firmly believes some of the most important books anyone will ever read are those from their childhood, and books for young readers deserve far higher recognition than they get.
Lynne Taylor
Lynne had been with the writer’s group for four years. She has written for the theatre and produced her play ‘2 Men, 2 Dogs & A Woman’ at the now legendary Kardomah94. Two of her plays received second read-throughs with Papatango. Lynne has completed three novels. A children’s fantasy a period crime story, and an espionage thriller – which is on sub. Lynne is now writing her fourth novel, another crime story, set in Hull. Followed by a time travel story – Lynne sometimes she wishes she could turn back time to get all the writing done!
Lynne has stories in writers at anthologies and a monologue in an audition speech book for female actors.
Lynne lives with her cat in Hull.
Julie Venner
Julie has been making stuff up forever and writing it down since she learned to use a pencil. She writes and performs poems, songs and stories, and co-edited the BSFA*’s writers’ magazine Focus with Carol for several years. She has performed at live and virtual open mics across Yorkshire. When she isn’t writing she may be teaching, walking, singing, doing tai chi or trying to learn Mandarin Chinese. Her writing draws on science and nature, culture clashes and other worlds, folklore and folk tales, and the magic hiding in the ordinary. You can find her work in Writers @ anthologies, Another Time, Another Place and Red Herrings and Blind Alleys, Dream Catcher Magazine and Green Ink Poetry.
*BSFA = British Science Fiction Association
Terry Ireland
Stranded on Earth following accidental jettisoning of Life Support Cradle from passing star ship; landed in the Hallowed Kingdom of Yorkshire and tended and cared for by two devoted parents and family. Stumbled through life in a series of great leaps backwards, quite often drunk, but mainly happy. Met and rapidly married mate for life before she could see sense and escape.
Continued, much to the detriment of my family, with great leaps backwards (the only thing I was ever good at), though this time sober. Contributed to the gene pool with two amazing sons, and now contemplating the remainder of life with quiet contentment. Have been quietly, drunk and sober, writing poetry from the age of seven, thus often embarrassing my otherwise delightful wife and offspring.
Following bereavement Met and married my equally delightful second wife and settled down to retired life.
Have no fears, other than that space ship may return and find me. Until then feel it my sacred duty to lampoon life, and the universe in general though not necessarly in that order of preference.
Sue Ireland
Hello there, I am Sue Ireland the long-suffering wife of Terry Ireland.
For the some years prior to the first Covid lockdown we had a following as Performance Poets, performing our own work at a variety of venues including libraries, clubs, pubs, political rallies, care homes, private parties and local radio stations, even workshops at local schools. We sometimes perform individually, sometimes as Sue and The General [tongue in cheek reference to Terry’s brief but eventful military career] or as part of the poets’ group, the Artful Codgers.
Such a variety of venues requires a varied mix of style and content which are reflected in my two books written on my own account – A Certain Girl and Tall Tales About Russians. I have also collaborated with Terry in two books – Sue and The General and The Tackle.
We are Johnny-Come-Latelys at Writers@ but loving the companionship, support and motivation the group gives us.
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Pop up co-writing opportunities
Workshops
Book signings and open mic events
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Based in East Yorkshire
Write as a hobby, are a freelance writer or a published writer
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