City Stories
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Tim Hulme
Tim Hulme began writing after retiring from his career in accountancy. He writes short stories, many of which have been broadcast on local radio and read out at public events. He won first prize in the magazine Writers Forum with a story about the holocaust, although he likes to write in all genres from comic to romance and sci-fi. He has also written a novel involving mystery and revenge in a country village, called The Emerald Ring.
Tim was born in Macclesfield, England, and now lives in Upton on the Wirral peninsula. He is an active member of the Friends of Bebington Library, enjoys antiquing and making small-scale replicas of castles and other historical buildings. He is the Secretary and Co-Treasurer of Riverside Writers.
William R Jones
An American born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Bill Jones currently lives in San Francisco with his family, one miniature dachshund and eight unfinished Nanowrimo novels. Over the years he has worked in numerous professions, most recently as an actuary and also as a teacher of the deaf.
William's website: dragonlaire@livejournal.com
Caroline Hubbard
Caroline Hubbard was born in Liverpool, England, and has lived in Birkenhead for twenty-five years. She is forty-eight years old, married with three grown-up daughters, and is a respite foster carer to children with special needs. She has worked as a learning disability nurse and deputy manager of a nursing home.
She has always enjoyed writing for pleasure. Caroline's claim to fame is the publication of one of her poems in a local newspaper, winning a public speaking competition and an article in Bella magazine. She has led a colourful life and her experiences and travels influence her writing.
Caroline's website: https://rossetta.simplesite.com/
Andy Siddle
Andy Siddle is fifty, married with two children and lives in West Kirby on the Wirral peninsula in England. He won a Merseyside schools story competition at the age of nine. After graduating from Keele and doing an MA in Modern Fiction at the University of East Anglia, he spent a year in Ohio in the late 1980s helping to edit a literary journal called the Mid-American Review, reviewing and editing stories from as far apart as New York and San Francisco.
Back in England, he joined a travel guide publishing company as an editor in 1989. Learning to edit books to a high quality and with tight deadlines has stood him in good stead down the years. He joined Riverside Writers in 2009, where he has gained valuable insights and constructive feedback. One of Andy's short stories, Behind the Mask, was published in a priced anthology in 2011. It involves an amateur theatre group, mistaken identities and strong glue.
Andy has worked for the Health and Safety Executive as an editor for many years. He won the organisation’s 2012 short story competition with As Long as They Could Remember. It’s about a woman suffering from dementia and he has received lots of positive emails from colleagues who said it moved them to tears. He also writes poetry and is currently working on his first novel. He is the Treasurer of Riverside Writers.
Jason Barney
Jason Barney lives in Vermont, America. He is a high school social studies teacher. He is thirty-eight years old and tries to write as often as he can.
Jack Horne
Jack Horne lives in Plymouth, where he works for the local theatre. Quite a few of his stories and poems have been published and some have been broadcast on the radio. He has had some competition success.
Adele Cosgrove-Bray
Adele Cosgrove-Bray is most notably known for her series of urban fantasy/paranormal fantasy novels which follow the lives of a community of artisan-sorcerers based in contemporary Liverpool.
She also writes short fiction, non-fiction, children's fiction and poetry. She has worked as an editor for The Birchwood Guidebook and as a freelance writer for Exploring the Supernatural, Your Future and Prediction magazines. She has been featured in The Daily Mail newspaper and Marie Claire magazine, and has short stories included in anthologies published by Hadley Rille Books and Dark Moon Press.
She was born in Cheshire and was raised in Lancashire, and has also lived in Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool which is the home of her artisan-sorcerers. She moved to the Wirral peninsula in 2000. She has been the elected Chair for Riverside Writers since 2003. Adele became a member of the Cryonics Institute in 2008.
Adele's website: https://adelecosgrove-bray.blogspot.co.uk
About Riverside Writers
Riverside Writers are a friendly group of creative writers and poets who live and work on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England. The group was formed in 1998.
They meet once each month at West Kirby Library. All meetings start at 7.30pm and end at 9.30pm. No membership fee is required at present.
New members are always very welcome, whether they are a published author or are totally new to creative writing.
Learn more at their website: https://riversidewriterswestkirby.blogspot.co.uk/