The Authors

Emma was educated at Stevenage Girl's School. She loved English and was fortunate to have a teacher who encouraged her to write.

She has worked in HR and Recruitment for the past twenty-five years. Her hobbies are reading, gardening, patchwork and quilting.

Author of fantastical and strange stories

Long-distance member Lynda Clarke joined us a one of the first zoom meetings we had and has proved to be an invaluable member of the group. A keen amateur writer Lyn has been a member of various writing groups across the south of England. Check out her page to get a flavour of the work she has been contributing over the years

  Alan Davie is a retired Civil Engineer who moved to Letchworth in 1988 from North London.. He was pretty useless writer at school and didn’t write anything until the mid 1970’s, when, as a member of an amateur dramatic group, he wrote a play (more a ballet with words) for his first wife, which won the cup for the ‘best innovative play’ in a District competition. After this success, he wrote only a little for his own amusement, until he joined the Letchworth Writers Group in 2017, where he has learned so much and has tried to contribute a piece of writing every month.

I was born in deepest Essex but grew up in London. After finishing uni I spent my early adult life on the comedy circuit and writing for BBC Radio before, at a ridiculously late age, embarking on a career in IT. After several years of working in locations around the world, I emerged with an abiding hatred of airport security and mid-market hotel rooms. I took up writing again about three years ago and since then have completed my first novel and several short stories, joining LWG in 2019.

I live in Letchworth with my wife, son, and a dog called Zebedee.

Apart from an early novel written at the age of 13, Richard didn't start writing regularly until his 40s.  Since then writing has been a regular activity both for his work and for his own pleasure.  In the 1990s, research into his home town resulted in the publication of his book, Hitchin: A Pictorial History.  More recently his love of international motorcycle travel has led him to focus on travel writing.  He has written several travel articles and is currently working on a projected account of his overland journey to the Caspian Sea. He also writes short stories and poetry.  He and his wife were formerly owners of The Hitchin Bookshop.

Author and musician. Works as a professional saxophone teacher and co-founder of Resinhead, a jewellery making company. https://www.resinhead.co.uk/index.html

Short story writer and occasional member of the group.

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Len’s a short story writer, novelist, anthologist and editor. He has written and published over forty books in various genres, his most recent being six DCI Jack Callum Mysteries and the Harry Beck series of crime thrillers set in The Bahamas. Runs LMP - Len Maynard Publishing and is currently engaged in bringing several LW members to print. Sometimes he sleeps, but not often. 

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  I’ve been deep into science and back again. I’ve always written for fun, to express myself and for the satisfaction of seeing ideas go down on paper. I wrote the second half of my novel first - as part of the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 50,0000-words-in-a-month challenge and the next year I wrote the first half. The subsequent years were spent trying to make sense of it! Now “The Uncovering” is going to be published by Len’s publishing company, LMP. I write a journal every day and have done since I was a child - which was a long time ago - and this is a great source of ideas.

I'm Dan - a screenwriter, playwright and short fiction writer. I love stories, whether writing, reading, watching or listening. I like to bounce around genres but am often trying to be funny (sorry if I'm not succeeding). I also like to dabble in surrealism from time to time

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I have always written, scribbled bits of poetry, short stories and essays. Usually cathartic, often introspective. And never shared. Until In 2011 I self published my first book ‘Brain Glue’. I had pulled out the box-from-under-the-bed that contained decades of my writing.... I sorted and transcribed hundreds of A4 and foolscap hand-written bits and pieces and writing that had been typed up on my Smith Corona portable typewriter that I got as a Christmas present in 1968. The first half of ‘Brain Glue’ was written circa and before 1981; the second half was written in and around 2011. Since then I have had published four books/ pamphlets: two of poetry and two of a mixture of writings.

Having worked in a number of universities and run his own business, Paul now divides his time between non-executive work for an educational trust and writing fiction. His writing is regularly disrupted by children and a growing number of grandchildren and dogs.Paul’s State of Treason, published by Sharpe Books in June 2019, is the first in a planned series of Elizabethan spy thrillers. The second book was published in in October 2019.

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