Which Swim Will be the Last? Lunch Date The Boy in the Icehouse Grange Chine Sea-change

Lydia Fulleylove writes poetry, short stories and articles and has recently begun to explore script writing. She is fascinated by the strong connection between script, especially radio plays, and poetry. Work published in magazines, including Smith's Knoll, Tears in the Fence, Staple, Seam , Interpreter's House, Iota, Mslexia, TES, Runner's World . She also published creative writing materials for young people and literature based literacy materials (Nelson Thornes). Lydia is Writer in Residence for HMP Albany.  She has also been literature education development worker for South East Arts on the island and writer in residence for Healing Arts.  She needs sea, earth and the physicality of everyday life to inform her writing.

Joan Waddleton is definitely not a self starter. She spent years claiming to have an interest in poetry but doing virtually nothing about it, other than trotting out satirical verses for the local press or odes for family occasions. She now recognises heavy dependence on Shore Women or sundry courses to supply stimuli, inspiration, criticism and deadlines. She has published poems in Seam, The Interpreter's House, South, Envoi, and a combined Enitharmon/Second Light Anthology, Parents. She was a runner-up in the Ottakar's 2004 competition. Writing, when it flows, gives matchless pleasure but the labouring days are just that.

Mayday Picturing My Mother Rusting Hulk The Eyes Have It Wholesale Fruit Market

The Angel Anyone at Home? Abandoned Sole Farm Music

Kate MacDonell has written verse and prose, fact and fiction, for as long as she can remember, mostly for pleasure and to record events and experiences. When Kate started nursing one of her first essays was criticised as "too flowery, beautiful English but stick to the facts!" So for many years creative writing was suppressed although Kate did research, write and publish a family history, Grandfather's Box, which has sold well internationally. Open University studies and a switch to teaching rekindled Kate's literary pursuits. Joining Shore Women has led to her writing a bit more seriously, becoming involved in performance, exhibitions, and publication.  Her poem The Wee Tin House Painted Pink appears  in the 2006 anthology Images of Women published by Arrowhead and Second Light.

Pat Murgatroyd has always written poems and prose as a personal, private activity. Within Shore Women she has learned to craft her writing and is fascinated with form. She reads widely, goes to writing workshops and attends as many poetry festivals as possible in a busy working life. She has published poetry in Smith's Knoll, Grasse Routes, and Island Sounds and has contributed to The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing . She has also written articles for a variety of publications such as Writers in Education, Women Returning to Higher Education and Petites Scenes de la Vie des Femmes.  Her poem Lazy-beds was a runner-up in the Ottakar's 2004 competition.

Lazy-beds Caution Chine Women 1785 Spinnaker Dance Erosion

Ryde Pier Eggcups at Besalu Sailing Under False Colours The Year of the Sheep Cross-section of the Head of a Man Eating a Plum

In the 1980s Shelley McAlister survived, briefly, as a short fiction and article writer. After more than ten years without writing at all, there followed new inspiration brought on by joining Shore Women in 1996. She wrote and broadcast a short series for Radio 4 and more recently has published stories and poems in The Rialto,  The Interpreter's House, Magma and iota.  Her first collection of poetry is Sailing Under False Colours, published by Arrowhead Press in 2004. She works as a lecturer in social science at The Open University.

Marion Carmichael, she has always loved writing, although she doesn't know why. She knows that time is running out That now she really must try To find the time, to find her voice To find that happy patchwork hat Which fits well for all occasions As: mother, lover, teacher, friend, sister, grandma, mum-in-law, wife Yet has a ribbon bright and jaunty Which lets her write; be sinister, flighty or crude With the aid of the hat She writes poem, stories And continues to work on the NOVEL.

Country Cottage Cutting the Grass Cloisters London 'lations Grainy

Year's End Holding On	FELICITY FAIR THOMPSON has a Masters degree in Screenwriting London College of Communication. Her published work includes fiction, poetry, scenic travel features for magazines, and writing and directing documentary videos for the tourist market and general exhibition - three of her films have been broadcast on South Australian TV. She runs writing seminars and courses on fiction and short film and was the founder and director of the Writers' Weekend national Conference on the Isle of Wight. She teaches fiction and creative writing for young people at Connexions South Central, and for Adult Education at the Isle of Wight College, spends as much time as possible on her own writing

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