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About Roger
Roger’s career was in the field of Environmental Health
and in thirty five years he wrote millions of words in the form of reports on
such diverse subjects as:-
Enforcement of Sunday Trading Laws,
The Provision of Gypsy Caravan Sites,
as well as Contingency Plans for Emergencies, such as
Rabies.
After taking an opportunity to retire early, he decided
to put his creative energies into writing poetry and fiction. He began by
constructing screenplays for an independent film-making friend. This led to
short stories, flash fiction and poems. During the last eleven years, he has
tried all aspects including travel pieces, short plays, sketches, reviews,
memoirs, moths, and letters to newspapers. He has a novella in the late stages
of editing, but will never embark on a full length novel as he is unwilling to
devote all his time to one project.
He has performed his poems, addressed camcorder clubs,
operated as Laureate to a local primary school, acted in some of the films for
which he has written the scripts, read his pieces to blind people and written
down their stories. He currently belongs to two Writing Groups as well as the
Salopian Poetry Society and whenever possible attends and has helped in
organising, creative writing workshops and seminars.
Aware of the advice that ‘a writer should read more than
they write,’ he vows to delve into the pile of novels in his study, but when
time is limited, he always tends to pick up his pen before opening someone
else’s book. His favourite authors are William Boyd, William Trevor, Seamus
Heaney and Gillian Clarke and he will always find time for one of
them.
Publications
1. An A to Z by RLN - a self published
anthology of 26 short stories. Currently out of print. Printed by Mallard
Independent Publishing www.mallardip.com
2. Cafe Lit and Best Of ... -
numerous inclusions. www.cafelit.co.uk
3. Alfie Dog Fiction - 12 individual
short stories and one in an anthology entitled By My Side. www.alfiedog.com
4. Paragraph Planet - a daily 75 word
paragraph, several inclusions. www.paragraphplanet.com
5. Coachlines - the annual anthologies of
Coachhouse Writers. www.chwriters.co.uk
Awards
A short story, Letter to Barbara, awarded 2nd prize in
Delivered, June 2010.
A poem, Dudley, chosen for inclusion on a post card to
promote Poetry on Loan and Big Book Fortnight 2012.
A poem, Get Up, chosen as the best humorous poem in the
Salopian Poetry Society’s 2016 Annual Exhibition.
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