About

Contact us at ninevoices9@gmail.com

We are:

Anita Reid – medical editor and writer (Allergy-free Living with Professor Peter Howarth, Mitchell Beazley, 2000); plays in development (Black Paper, Gold Ink; The Riddle of the Mummified Finger; The Wishing Tree); publisher, Choral Singing and Healthy Voice Production by David Howard

Christine Mackinnon – columnist and perfume fanatic. http://www.christinemackinnon.com, www.christinemackinnonblog.wordpress.com, crystallisedginger.wordpress.com

Ed Peacock – whodunit in production, short stories, organises writing competition – http://www.bcsa.co.uk/specials.html

Elizabeth Saccente – crime fiction set in Japan – http://elizabethsaccente.com

Jane Dobson – poetry and women’s fiction.  Jane’s poem, Fragments of Love, was first published in The Times on February 11th 2010 as Love’s Fragments.

Maggie Richell-Davies – writes fiction focused on the dark side of human nature .  Maggie – who has lived in South America, Africa and the United States – has won the HWA/Sharpe 2020 Unpublished Novel Award, been shortlisted for Bridport Flash, Spotify’s Adventures in Fiction, Flash 500’s First Chapter Competition, the Olga Sinclair Award, the Hysteria Writing Competition and the Joan Hessayon Award. A previous novel was shortlisted by Cornerstones, one of fourteen out of over a thousand entries. The Servant, a thriller set in the squalor and brutality of 18th century London, is currently available on Kindle for an affordable £1.99 (https://www.Amazon.co.uk/dp/B087N8H9PB), or FREE on Kindle Unlimited, with the paperback at £7.99.

Follow her on Twitter: @maggiedavieswr1 on Instagram maggiedavieswriting, or on her website: https://www.maggiedaviesiswriting.com

   

Sarah Frances won the 2019 Colm Tóibín International Short Story Award with Dinosaurs Rule, and in 2018 was shortlisted with Piecing the Truth.  Several of her other short stories have also been shortlisted in competitions, including in Writing Magazine, the Exeter Story Prize, the Bedford Competition; also longlisted (HWA/Dorothy Dunnett). She has written several novels: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly and The Violet Hour (both YA) were shortlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize (2016 and 2018); The Violet Hour was also longlisted for Mslexia‘s Novel Competition and the Guppy YA Open Window (in 2020). Most recently, Sarah has been working on a historical novel – Gigantic Dreams – inspired by a crucial year in the life of Thomas Hardy’s mother. An early draft (entitled Life’s Lucky Escapes) was longlisted for the 2023 Yeovil Literary Prize.

Sarah has a passion for greyhounds – which often feature in her stories.

She would love you to follow her on Twitter: @SarahDwriter

Tanya van Hasselt writes contemporary novels All Desires Known (2014) and Of Human Telling (2017). As Tanya Aydon she has won prizes for short stories in Writing Magazine, Writers Forum, and the Barbara Pym centenary competition.

                                        

Valerie Stirling – plays with drama groups in mind (wide range of casts)