Pat Parkin
Pat has produced a lot of writing in a variety of styles. This is her first appearance on this web site with her last story taken from our 2001 Anthology. It's a tale of greed and innocence.
Liz Pullin
Despite a deprived education I retained a great interest in English Language and, at the age of thirty-nine, I decided to study for my English "O" and "A" Level examinations. After achieving an average result from these I joined Abbeydale Writers, intending eventually, to move to a more academic course.
That was eight years ago and I'm still here enjoying the varied activities of the Group but feeling a fraud in comparison to my fellow writers because my productivity is pretty low. My short stories are based loosely on true events.
Rachel Reynolds
I'm attempting to juggle job, home, kids, pets and writing classes when handicapped with pitifully poor hand eye co-ordination. Think not so much "Nineties Superwoman" as "Compromisewoman for the twenty-first Century".
Christopher Shaw
Born in 1970, I have lived in Sheffield all all my life. I joined Abbeydale Writers in 1992. My main writing interest is comedy. This is either in the form of sketches (Doris and Maud are two of my long established characters), short stories, monologues or poems. My first book "Poor Hilda, Poor Edward", is now published and is available. I have also written a limited amount of more serious work, both in poetry and prose
Ellis Soloman
Born 1st July 1916. Emigrated to Canada and USA. Returned to England in Feb 1932. Left school at fifteen. Worked in engineering for 18 years. Studied at evening class and became a Teacher, then Lecturer in light mass production engineering at City Day College, London. Taught in Sudbury, Suffolk and Braintree, Essex. Lived in Castle Hedingham, Essex.
Moved to Lincoln in 1972. Worked with disturbed children until retirement in 1981. Moved to Sheffield in December, 1999.
Debra Tuckett
I was born in Oxford in 1955 and lived there until 1973 when I left for Rolle College, Exeter. There I trained to be a teacher and after my BEd, worked in a childrens home near Oxford. I moved to Sheffield in 1979. After working with unemployed teenagers for a year, I took time out to have three children. Following this I have taught in various Sheffield schools, completed an an English degree at Sheffield, Hallam University and I now work with autistic children in a local secondary school.
Peter Winnall
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Peter used to be a writing member of our group giving us anecdotes from his early life, but recently
has metamorphosed into our Website Manager.
He is a strange creature who has been variously an electrical (and then an electronic) engineer, nearly all things in computing during a thirty year period, but is now retired and is the only one of us with enough time to play with our Website. We will from time to time publish things he's written in the past. Whether he will ever write anything in future is probably up to you folks - and the medical profession.
Matthew Stanley
<>We like to consider Matthew as an honorary member of Abbeydale writers. He first joined us fifteen years ago when he was a teenager. He has since travelled the world which included a stint teaching English in China. He has returned to do an MA at Sussex University and we are pleased to be able to include "Hamlet and Eggs", one of his most recent stories.
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