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My name is Pamela Pottinger I am a writer of children's and adult's fiction. I have had some small success with pieces being accepted for Radio Cumbria and also John Murray's writing surgery re: Eden Arts. I have also won a national competition through the Writer's News Magazine and was once rung up by an agent (Darley Anderson) who wanted to see more of my work. Although it didn't get any further than that it was quite affirming to have at least attracted their attention. Other than that I just love writing. I write everyday, if not fiction, then letters to friends. I believe in the power of the word. I once wrote a story to my mother's orthopaedic consultant in order that he may 'see her' as a mother, a friend, a wife, a woman. It didn't get her seen to any quicker but my mum said he did smile and laugh and begin to talk to her as if they were friends. My family are long suffering never knowing if there will be tea on the table or indeed clean clothes in the airing cupboard. My husband says I am less bad tempered when I'm writing so...perhaps there is a method in their madness! |
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| Showcase (14 Nov 07) | |
| On the Feast of Stephen | |
| But let me tell you about the workshop. For it is full of magic, like walking through a fairy tale or enchanted land. At least this is how it has always seemed to me: Glass is everywhere, shimmering and swaying, filling the room with light until it sparkles like sun dappled water on a mid summers day. Chandeliers, baubles, angels with outspread wings, all float in the air and cast their spells upon the animals and trinkets that nestle below amongst soft white tissue. Sometimes the light makes them ripple with life. It is as though they stretch and crane to see what he is doing. And sometimes they speak. Sometimes a gentle movement of air wakes them. And then eyes begin to glitter and to smile. Tell us who we are. They whisper. "Tell us." (extract from story in "Making Changes" published by Bridge House Publishers |
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