Short Story writers on Short Story Radio

Read more about the writers whose stories you have listened to. Our writers are listed by surname.

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Sylvia Alston (Dust to Dust)

Sylvia was born in Preston, Lancs. and migrated to Australia in 1982 with husband Steve and three daughters who are now grown up. Sylvia is currently undertaking a creative PhD at the University of Canberra exploring laughter as a means of coping with pain and stress. She can be contacted at: salston@netspeed.com.au

Paul Carey (The Inheritors)

Paul Carey lives in Grays Thurrock Essex, he is chairman of  the Thurrock Playwrights group, and Vice-chair of Diving through time drama group. He enjoys amateur dramatics, film-making, drawing, painting and writing. He collects old American comics, likes TV shows from the 60's and 70's, is interested in the paranormal, and is fascinated by comic geniuses.

Paul can be contacted at pedcar@tiscali.co.uk

James Donaldson Collins (Summer's Lease)

James Donaldson Collins is an artist and musician. He moved back to Scotland seven years ago after spending most of his life in the south of England. He lives with his wife, teenage daughter and three dogs in a farmhouse outside Elgin, Moray.

Catherine Davies (Adieu My Stooge)

Catherine, 24, runs Manchester’s leading literature night, RE:Verberate, supported by Arts Council England. She is the Department Coordinator of BBC Manchester News and Current Affairs, and also a stand-up comedian. Many literary magazines and arts websites have published her poetry and short fiction in the UK, Ireland and Canada. She is completing an MA in Creative Writing and finishing her first novel. She loves burlesque, travelling, Mac computers and second-hand bookshops.

www.myspace.com/catdaviescomedy

Helen Edmunds (Envidia and The Ginger Pig)

Helen Edmunds has been writing seriously for about four years. She writes prose fiction and is working on a series of linked short stories. She belongs to a women’s writing group in Medway called the Medway Mermaids.

Sarah Evans (Abandoned)

Sarah Evans lives in Welwyn Garden City with her husband, and works in London where she is part of a writing group. Her short stories have been published, shortlisted, longlisted, and – most usually – not at all listed, by a variety of magazines and competitions.

Stories published by Writers’ Forum, Happenstance, Leaf.

Elizabeth Fearon (Peter's Last Stand)

Elizabeth moved to southern Spain from Southport three years ago with her husband, two teenage daughters and one large lovable dog. They have survived the ensuing emotional rollercoaster and are now happily settled for the foreseeable future. Elizabeth has had several articles published in national UK magazines and is hoping to find an agent for her first novel, having begun work on her second.

Last updated March 2007