Siobhain is a freelance writer,reader, mom to five part home-educated kids,(all her own) ages 7yrs - college students, who also co-runs hubbie´s businesses (which involve property/grounds renovation.)
For this reason, she loves Short Stories as, with little time, she finds they are a distillation of quality, entertainment, intellectual challenge, fun, humor and wit rolled into one. Also, they are usually produced as thin, light volumes which are portable and can slip into a briefcase or shopping bag at a moment´s notice when there´s an opportunity to use some dead downtime productively, by stimulating the ´little grey cells´ and adding to reading repertoire. A whole story can be avidly consumed in five minutes.
She holds a B Ed(Hons) Degree in English Literature/Education and is an English Literature Home Tutor.
She also writes for Suite 101 (Teen Culture) and Helium and writes advertising copy through her Writing Business (Inspirangels Writing Services.)
Recently self-published on Lulu is her chapbook volume of semi-autobiographical short stories:
´Dead Nun´s Shoes´
Read it and weep, either with tears of laughter or commiseration, depending upon whether your own memories of schooldays involved either the purgatory or the privilege of a convent education! Or just read if curious about ´what that´s like!´
Siobhain is also a feisty advocate of ´Education for All´,the nurturing of writing, literature and critical thinking skills in young people, and of reader access to all noble literature, not just that which is presented for our consumption by mainstream publishers.
She believes that the Short Story genre is not in decline but just changed it´s name! It has ´morphed´ into the highly trendy and popular form ´Flash Fiction.´ In its shortest form, this is called ´Micro Fiction.´
The family live on the rainbow-swept wilderness of the English moors, which provides the backdrop for Siobhain´s next collection of Short Stories and Nature Writing.
Author Note:
"Hi, and a very warm welcome! What I am really interested in is YOUR opinions! If I write that a certain collection seems, to me, a maudlin mush of sentimentality but you enjoyed working your way eagerly through a box of paper tissues....do tell me and take me to task! I love discussion, developing teen´s literature learning, debate, recommendations and a forum that´s hot!"
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