I'm a writer of short stories (my favourite won $4000), feature articles and information leaflets.
I was once an online agony aunt for Sky and have been writer in residence at a community centre for the unwaged and low waged, working on lottery funded projects that included turning thousands of hours of recorded interviews into a 200 page history of 20th century Brighton life.

I also write novels.
My first, A GOOD CONFESSION, was published in 2008 and centred on a love affair between a Catholic priest and a young widow. It wasn't so much a will-they-won't-they story (you know that they do on the first page), but an exploration of what you do when you break the rules of the community you belong to: do you throw the rule book away or live with the secret?
My second novel is about three women friends living in London in the late 1980s who are caught up in a miscarriage of justice. It is a work in progress. I've been saying that for quite awhile. It is still true.

I also teach writing, although that's a clumsy way of expressing what goes on in the classroom (or art gallery or museum or wherever I am). It's more about supporting and encouraging, providing a creative kick-start, or generating an environment where people feel able to go off in new directions, experiment and take risks. I've worked in schools and libraries and on university undergraduate courses. I also teach at adult education institutes in London and Brighton.