judith barrow

Judith Barrow grew up in a small village in Saddleworth, at the foot of the Pennines in North-West England, UK. In 1978 she moved with her husband, David, and their three children to Pembrokeshire in West Wales, where she is a creative writing tutor. Her short stories have been published in several Honno anthologies. Her first novel, Pattern of Shadows, published by Honno, is a wartime saga, set around the first German POW camp in Britain. The sequel, Changing Patterns was published in May 2013. The last of the trilogy is Living in the Shadows. The prequel to the Pattern series, A Hundred Tiny Threads, was published in August 2017. In March 2020, The Memory, a story of a mother and daughter tied together by shame and secrecy, love and hate,was published. Her next book, The Heart Stone, will be published in February 2021. She also has an eBook, Silent Trauma (now out in paperback, that is fiction built on fact and based on the drug Diethylstilboestrol, which has caused devastating damage to unborn women.

Judith also offers workshops on all genres of creative writing in most areas of Wales UK