Margaret Mounsdon

Margaret Mounsdon

I took up writing when I retired from a ‘proper’ job and decided I didn’t want to sit around all day doing nothing. I always loved reading and writing and started off with short stories then graduated to D C Thomson Pocket Novels of which I have had to date 43...
Alex Rushton

Alex Rushton

I worked for many years as an academic and later in the NHS as a therapist. Initially I wrote academic papers before branching out into fiction writing. I joined my local writing group Walton Wordsmiths nearly fifteen years ago and the group is still going strong....
Claire Dyer

Claire Dyer

Claire Dyer’s novels are published by Quercus, The Dome Press, Matador and Pegasus. Her latest novel is ‘What We Thought We Knew’. She has also had four poetry collections published by Two Rivers Press. Claire teaches creative writing and runs Fresh Eyes, an editorial...
Mary Rensten – Vice President / Co Council Member

Mary Rensten – Vice President / Co Council Member

Chair of the SWWJ during its Centenary year 1994, Mary is still active on the Council, responsible for the Society’s assisted-publishing initiative, SCRIPTORA. A former teacher, she was a prolific free-lance magazine journalist in the 1980s and 90s, specialising...
Roberta Grieve

Roberta Grieve

Roberta Grieve is a writer of historical romances with fifteen novels published since 2008. Her stories cover the period from the Victorian age up to World War Two and the immediate post-war period. Her recent trilogy, A Family at War, took her back to her years...