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“Like many women, we met through friends of friends, at the school gate, in the playground...and discovered we shared the desire to write. Taking the model of the book group, we decided to start a club in which to experiment with our fiction writing. ‘The Leap Year’ is the result – and we’re very proud of it.’
Miranda Glover:
“As a novelist, I have found the CWWC a fantastic place to practise new approaches to my work and to watch other talented female writers gain in confidence and output. The Leap Year has been an amazing experience, a lot of hard work and a fantastic result. We are very proud of it and intend to write more collections together.
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Leaps of faith. Leaps from despair. Leaps into love...
The Leap Year
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An original collection of short stories by six women writers with an introduction by Kathy Lette.
Published 26th November 2009
by Queenbee Press £6.99
“Seductive tales of chance and choice,” Victoria Glendinning
“A triumph for women writing today...” Rosie Boycott
“Fasten your psychological seat belt for a very exciting ride,” Kathy Lette
The Leap Year is an exciting new venture: an anthology of short stories written by six women who have collaborated on writing styles, themes and independent publication. Over the kitchen table these writers (some published, some emerging) have inspired one another to create a series of insightful stories about different chapters in women’s lives.
Blood and lust in Argentina; secrets and grief in Montreal; passionate reunions in New York; a dance with fear in Barcelona. The Leap Year shows how unexpected moments change 12 women’s lives: from a car-jacking in South Africa, to a ghostly visitation in London; from a honeymoon accident in Kenya, to a divine encounter in Hong Kong.
The CWWC (Contemporary Women Writers’ Club) was founded in 2008. It meets regularly to discuss new ideas and approaches to fiction. It supports and promotes independent women’s writing and publication. Its members believe creative collaboration can help women realise their literary ambitions.
For more information or to order The Leap Year visit: www.queenbee.co.uk
WHO WE ARE
Lucy Cavendish writes a column for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and contributes regularly to The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Observer.
She has published two novels with Penguin; Samantha Smythe's Modern Family Journal and Lost and Found and a third, Storm In A Teacup, will be published in February 2010.
Miranda Glover has published three novels with Transworld; Meanwhile Street (2009) Soulmates (2007) and Masterpiece (2005). She has a background in arts publishing.
Alexa Hughes Wilson spent many years reading and writing about French literature and a short stint in publishing in New York. Having moved from the United States to live in England she has started to focus on her own writing.
Rachel Jackson is signed to the agency Curtis Brown, and is working on her first novel which explores her Afro-Caribbean roots. She has written fiction for The Erotic Review as well as features for women’s magazines including Marie Claire.
Anne Tuite-Dalton has worked as a language teacher since moving from France to the UK twenty years ago. She has always had an interest in writing fiction and has used the CWWC to explore the possibilities of story-telling.
Jennie Walmsley worked for many years as a BBC producer, where she wrote and edited scripts and programmes. This anthology is her first published fiction writing.