Wendy Robertson
Wendy Robertson is a professional writer who has published more than 20 novels, as well as regular articles and short stories. Her tutoring skills come from a long experience in formal and informal education, tutoring people of all ages and abilities. More recently these have been focused on specialized workshops in locations as diverse as colleges, community centres and even a womens’ prison, where she directed a Litfest Inside as part of the Durham Literature festival.
For ten years she was director, with Gillian Wales, of the Practice To Deceive national short story competition which later generated great success for some of the winners. She still works as a mentor for individual writers to help them reach the point of publication. She is delighted with three new writers who recently reached that goal. She evaluates individual writers’ work by post and judges their potential. In addition she has anthologised, edited, and published collections of other people’s writing. The latest of these is The Self Revealed , a collection of writing from prison.
It is intended that all of these skills and services will be offered in the RoomToWrite project.
Wendy says:
‘Most of all I love to write - to generate stories that have something to say about me, about the intriguing elements and surprising factors of the world as I find it. Because I have been writing for more than twenty years, with a different novel every year, the world and the way I view it has changed and evolved. Each novel is unique unto itself. The paperback of Sandie Shaw And The Millionth Marvell Cooker is now out. I have just delivered my new (very different) novel, The Woman Who Drew Buildings, which will be out in hardback this September. Now I have a new one - which might be called At The Maison d'Estella - buzzing around in my head.’
To find out more about Wendy, her world view and her books, visit her website www.wendyrobertson.com and read her blog at http://lifetwicetasted.blogspot.com/