Walden Writers

The members of the Walden Writers co-operative are all published authors who live in or around Saffron Walden, Essex. The co-operative was set up in 2008 to cross-promote the work of its members, to organise literary events, to exchange information and to give one another mutual support. Walden Writers welcome new members and enquiries from the general public (contact them initially through author websites). They have produced three issues of a literary magazine and they also run workshops under the auspices of the Saffron Walden literary festivals , the Essex Book Festival and also the Saffron Walden Arts Festivals.
Members
Amy Corzine's publications include a popular science book called The Secret Life of the Universe: the Quest for the Soul of Science, a family travel guide called Take the Kids: Ireland, which contains fiction, a graphic novel script for Bronte's Jane Eyre, poems, even herbal medicine reports. She may be contacted through the Society of Authors (UK).
Barry Kaufmann-Wright is a former keeper at Jersey Zoo with Gerald Durrell through the 1960's and more recently a Police Wildlife Crime Officer with Essex Police for 22 years. In 2003 he won the prestigious WWF Wildlife Law Enforcer of the Year award. He is now a Wildlife Consultant and lectures on a range of subjects including Jersey Zoo and the work of Gerald Durrell, The Role of a Police Wildlife Crime Officer and Wildlife in the Garden. His inspirations come from the natural world and animals. His latest book is Chocka's Story.
Betty Morgan Bowen writes for children.
Carol Ann Frazer writes novels, short stories and poetry. She has had short stories broadcast on Radio 4 and for ten years she read her own stories live on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. She has had a romantic novel set in Majorca published, and many short stories in national magazines and in one collection. She has had poetry published and has written a teenage novel, which awaits a publisher. She teaches Creative Writing to both children and adults and has run workshops with other writers.
Clare Mulley is the author of The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of Save the Children (2009), which won the Daily Mail Biographers Club Prize. She has contributed to The Arvon Book of Life Writing (2010) among other publications. She is a seasoned speaker at literary and history festivals, bookshops and libraries, and has been heard on BBC Radio 4 and 2, as well as local radio. She talks on Eglantyne, and the craft of biography.
Ingrid Soren writes and lectures on Dante and T.S.Eliot. Her recently published Meeting Dante introduces the reader to The Divine Comedy, following its author as he travelled around 14th-century Italy writing his ‘poem of the cosmos’. Ingrid is currently working on Dante’s dream, a version of Dante for children.
Ingrid’s book on Zen and Horseriding was published by Time Warner; she has a passion for nature and wildlife with a special interest in ecology and conservation.
Jacqueline Cooper is editor of the Saffron Walden Historical Journal and author of books on Essex and Hertfordshire.
Jane Wilson-Howarth’s writing all has a travel theme. Her first big trip was at the age of 22; her mother hoped that a trip to the Himalayas might cure the itchy feet. It proved a taster not a cure and over a succession of further expeditions, Jane’s letters home evolved into published prose. She writes regularly for Wanderlust magazine and on occasion for The Independent newspapers and responds to questions run in other nationals. Her books are travel narratives and health guides and she has some broadcasting experience. She lectures widely on healthy travel - to lay and medical audiences - and has a particular interest in dangerous and loathsome creatures. Jane has contributed chapters to numerous travel guides and textbooks
Jeremy Collingwood taught law in Zambia and then worked for the Director of Public Prosecutions in London. After ordination, he held incumbencies in Bristol and Guildford before retiring to Saffon Walden. He is interested in history, politics, travel, religion and biography. He has written on African law as well as the following books: Hannah More: The woman who brought hope to England's darkest places (written with wife, Margaret), As A Witness to the Light: The story of Chengelo School in Zambia, and Mr Saffron Walden: The life and times of George Stacey Gibson (1818-1883).
Lizzie Sanders has been closely involved with three books about Littlebury, notably Littlebury, a Parish History which she co-edited and to which she also contributed, and has had articles published the Saffron Walden Historical Journal. In her professional life she is an artist and illustrator. Recently her clients have included the BBC’s Countryside magazine and Mitchell Beazley.
Martyn Everett was formerly Local Studies Librarian in Saffron Walden, and has been the Secretary of the Saffron Walden Town Library Society for many years. His publications include The Buildings of Saffron Walden (with drawings by architect, Donald Stewart), Saffron Walden: A Pictorial History (with Howard Newman), and Saffron Walden and the English Civil War.
Penny Speller writes children’s books and has published books for young children, stories in anthologies and a picture book. She has an MA in Writing for Children, is interested in the academic study of children’s literature and teaches creative writing workshops. Penny has written short stories, and about Lewis Carrol, Robert Louis Stevenson and war in children’s fiction.
Rik Gammack writes fantasy and science-fiction. He has had several short stories published and (under a pseudonym) one novel. He is currently working on a novel involving circuses, hot-air balloons and licentious burlesque. Cheddar Gorging was the Winner of the Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition 2008
Rosemary Hayes worked for Cambridge University Press and then for some years she ran her own publishing company, Anglia Young Books. Her first novel, ‘’Race Against Time’’ was runner-up for the Kathleen Fidler Award and since then she has written over thirty books for children. Her books, mostly for teenagers, cover a wide range of subjects including stories of young British Muslims, historical novels and most recently, stories from severely bullied children and how they were recovered .
Rosemary is currently a reader for a well known authors’ advisory service and she also runs creative writing workshops for both children and adults.
Saumya Balsari is the author of The Cambridge Curry Club and winner of The Cambridgeshire Book of the Decade 2010. The novel is based on her play The Curry Club for the Kali Theatre Company with a rehearsed reading at the Soho Theatre, London, in 2003. She is working on a second comic novel and a book of short stories. She is currently Writer in Residence and Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Centre for Latin American Studies.
Victor Watson is the editor of The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English. and has co-edited several critical works on children’s literature. He also wrote Reading Series Fiction (Routledge Farmer, 2000) and co-wrote Coming of Age in Children’s Literature (Continuum, 2002). In September 2009 he published his first novel for children, Paradise Barn. A sequel is to be published in 2011.
He often talks on the history of children’s literature.

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