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Below selected profiles of readers who took part in The Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading July 2011.

Alison Slade was born in London but spent most of her life in Bedfordshire, apart from her time at Winchester and Northampton university's, where she studied fine art with the emphasis on sculpture, and gained her Bachelor of arts degree. ALison has always written and made up stories, even before she could read. It is only in the last few years that she has taken herself seriously as a writer, now spending most of her time working on her first novel.

TRINITY BROWN - The novel is set in Alison's home town of Bedford, a quiet market town and capitol of the county of Bedfordshire. It revolves around three main characters, a detective Ben Ashton, a ghost hunter Trinity Brown and a serial killer Matthew Littlejohn. It is a crime novel with a difference......a supernatural element. Alison is hoping to build a series of novels featuring Trinity Brown and Ben Ashton as a duo who solve past mysteries, defeating evil and laying lost souls to rest.
 
Alison also keeps a blog, featuring themes from the book and writ ting gremlins.
at http:/livinginmymind.wordpress.com/

Raili is originally from Finland, moved to the UK in 1975; taking up residence in the northeast, then London and finally Kent.

Raili has just completed TWICE DEAD, her first novel, and is due to start a second, MIDDLE CLASS MURDERS, in September as a part of her Creative Writing MA course that she is currently studing for at Canterbury Christ Church University.

TWICE DEAD, chapter SUMMER, - Anna and her husband, Andrew, live with his elderly aunt, Miranda. In this chapter Anna overhears Miranda talking to an old friend about how much she dislikes Anna.

Emma Musty has an MA in Creative Writing from Bangor University and previously studied journalism in Cardiff. Her creative work has been widely anthologised and her articles and reviews have appeared in print and on line.She is currently working on her first noval and runs creative writing workshops for vulnerable adults.

Her first noval BEYOND BORDERS, Where do we come from? Which Borders have created us and which will tear us apart?

Saoirse is a girl out of place. An Indian in Cardiff being brought up by Irish/Welsh household, she is rootless and lost. She looks for answers from her family and from the church, but finds only silence and emptiness. It is not until she stumbles upon a group of social activists that she begins to feel at home.

Mairead, her adoptive parent has lost herself but found a daughter and is stuck in between two countries, two languages and two identities. Her deep-rooted fear of God immobilies her, but will she eventually be able to act?

Oma is a women driven mad by her grief. Her forbidden love of Khalid is ended by war, her family disown her and finally she is forced into prostitution. The only hope left to her is the child in her womb, but she has lost so much already, that she cannot help but loose more.

Davie is trying to create order. In prison, at war, at home he is the taming force of colonialism, and his very existance hacks at Maired's fragile sense of identity. In truth her family were never Irish. but came to Ireland as part of the colonial power structure.

Eddie is the heart of imperialism, he wants to improve upon, to alter and make better. He opens a Christian orphanage Banaras (re-named Varanasi after independence), but eventually his personel loss will remove all shine from his achievements.

Jyothi, a little girl who long for her sister, having never even met her she writes letters, telling her about life in Varanasi, wishing only for her to come home. As their lives implode and are built anew all of the characters experience the same emotions of joy or despair of hope. Beyond borders of space and time of land, and of love all of them are linked and their stories become one.

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