I belong to the Wild Geese, a closed Internet group of amazingly talented and supportive writers who live in UK, Canada, USA, France, Ireland and South Africa ( moi)
We crit, congratulate and commiserate whenever needed and without these mates I would never have had the nerve to send out my first story.
Said we were a talented bunch! Check our achievements:
Several Geese contribute to the Sexy Shorts range of charity books (Accent Press) The latest, Saucy Shorts For Chefs contains 12 of our stories.
One Australian fiction special contained stories from 8 of our members
Four Geese have written serials for women’s magazines
Our members write articles for national newspapers as well as for magazines.
Several of us are writing novels
One of us won the 2004 Real Writers prize
We have had winners & runners up in the JBWB, NAWG and Writers News short story competitions
One of our novels has been shortlisted/runner up in two novel writing comps.
Our members have been interviewed on radio, magazines and newspapers
List of members: Sheila Alcock, Penelope Alexander, Kelly Florentia, Sandra Beswetherick, Linda Barrett, Jennifer Bohnet, Kelly Rose Bradford, Maureen Gottfried (who writes as Kirsty Peters), Valerie Cameron, Caroline Jones, Pamela Cranshaw, Elaine Everest, Sue Houghton, Dawn Hudd, Kath Kilburn, Su Kopil, Lisa Main, Alison Mott, Maureen Richardson, Jill Steeples, Ginny Swart, Katharine Swartz, Fran Tracey, Lorraine Winter.
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