The Write Place is proud of all its students and we are especially keen to promote and encourage students working hard towards reaching publication and our newer students who are just starting out.

 Michael Deal 

  Michael Deal lives in Gravesend and has been writing since 2004. He has been a student in a number of different classes, exploring various types of writing. 

Currently he is a member of the Write a Novel class, writing a Sci-Fi novel on espionage. This is a topic of which he has much knowledge, having studied this area of interest for many years. He hopes to get it published one day.

Michael has won or been placed in several competitions at Swanley Scribblers, Kent Adult Education and The Write Place.

 Richard Miller 

Richard Miller, was educated at Gravesend Technical College and served many years as an engineer, until his retirement. 

A long-time student of Elaine's, he has attended a number of her creative writing classes. Last year he completed his novel The Silver Solution and is presently busy with his current novel.

 

Richard is a keen poet, having gained a number of prizes in local competitions. He has also had poetry published through the International Library of Poetry.

Rosemary Goodacre

Rosemary Goodacre lives in Sevenoaks and has been a student of Elaine's for a number of years. She attends the Write a Novel and the Publish your Writing classes.

Rosemary enjoys writing both short stories and novels. She also likes to write about the places she's travelled to on holiday. One of her novels is based on the continental background of her grandfather.

Several pieces of her work have been published in a church magazine and in writers' anthologies. A poem of hers was read out on Radio Kent. She has also been placed on a shortlist of ten in a writing competition.

Currently working on a more gothic kind of novel, she is trying not to frighten herself too much with the way the plot is developing!

Susan Howlett

Susan Howlett is retired and lives in Dartford. Over the last ten years she's done voluntary work. She's also attended many courses in adult education as well as at Chatham University.

She has just completed her first novel, but also enjoys writing poetry.

Susan's other field of writing is in the counselling therapy world. She has written a commissioning report for the BACP, revises therapy books and writes letters in The Independent Practitioner. She also enjoys reporting and researching within the sphere of natural health.

Barbara Clements

 

Barbara Clements is a dancer and exercise teacher. She's been teaching exercise for 30 years and running dance clubs for fourteen.

She joined Elaine's classes as a beginner three years ago. Having been involved in dance all her life, she found it refreshing to do something completely different. She enjoyed writing short stories, although had a problem keeping to the stated amount of words! Owing to a class time change, she joined the Write a Novel class and thought she'd have a go at a longer project.

Her novel is progressing well, though rather slower than she would have liked owing to other commitments.

Barbara wants to explore every type of writing possible, eventually hoping to see some of her work in print.

Samantha Whayman

Samantha Whayman lives in Dartford with her husband Matt and her three children. She has worked at Royal Mail for ten years as a post woman, which she sometimes finds quite dull.

Her enjoyment of reading has engendered many of her own ideas for books. Feeling she needed help getting them down on paper, she decided to join the Write a Novel course to gain encouragement and confidence to start writing. So far the course has helped her stay focussed on achieving her goal.

Andy Prue

 

Andy Prue's day job is as an NHS Web Development Librarian. Enough said.

Andy is relatively new to creative writing, having scribbled nonsense for many years, mainly for his own pleasure (definitely not for publication). He's now reached a point in his life where he wants to give 'proper' writing a go: to see once and for all if he has any talent!

The kind of fiction that appeals to him includes fantasy/horror, Sci-Fi and techno thrillers; literally anything except Unicorns, teenage Beverly Hills vampires or Middle Earth Trolls, Goblins or Hobbits.

His favourite authors include, Alan Moore (graphic novels), John Birmingham, Michael Crichton, Clive Barker, Richard Morgan, Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, Stephen King and many, many, many more!

His aim is to one day give up the day job and join those exhalted ranks. Just like several hundred million others: but hey, you never know!

He's interested in sampling all forms: short-stories, novels, screenplays, non-fiction...anything.

He says he may look like a wild lycanthrope during a full moon, but don't let that put you off saying hello, as he really doesn't bite!!!