Consultants

Jacqui is delighted to welcome three new consultants/mentors to The Writing Coach.

Sara Bailey

Sara has taught Creative Writing and ‘Novel in a Month’ at Richmond Adult College for the last 6 years and is a lecturer in Contemporary Fiction and Screenwriting at Solent University, Southampton,teaching Screenwriting and contemporary fiction (and shortly also Horror writing.

Her professional work is varied and includes: a fantasy autobiography for Alison Moyet’s World Tour; winning the Bristol Poetry Slam; and writing and performing poetry for the Ashton Court festival and International Women’s Day. More recently she has worked as a script consultant for the award winning director and documentary maker Madeleine Farely. Sara is also writing a novel for her PhD in Creative Writing and a thesis on ‘The How to Write’ books.

Emma Darwin

Emma Darwin was born and brought up in London, with interludes in Manhattan and Brussels. After a drama degree and a spell in academic publishing she took to photography and writing fiction. Her first novel, The Mathematics of Love, was published in 2006, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' and Goss First Novel Awards. To date it has been translated into seven languages and looks particularly nice in Russian. Her second novel, A Secret Alchemy, will be published by Headline Review in November 2008, and she has also won prizes for her short fiction. Emma now lives in South East London and teaches at Goldsmiths College, where she's doing a PhD in Creative Writing.

Fiona Robyn

Fiona Robyn is a poet, novelist and daily blogger. Her three novels,'The Letters', 'Thaw' and 'The Blue Handbag' will all be published in 2009 by Snowbooks. Her previous books are ‘Small Stones’, ‘A Year of Questions: How to slow down and fall in love with life’ and a collection of poetry. She is a qualified coach and therapist with many years of experience, working with people to help them find their own answers. Fiona grew up in Norfolk and Malaysia and now lives in rural Hampshire with her partner, cats, and a vegetable patch. She is particularly interested in helping writers to set up sustainable working practices and to find their own authentic style.