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Anne Goodwin’s drive to understand what makes people tick led to a career in clinical psychology. That same curiosity now powers her fiction.
Anne writes about the darkness that haunts her and is wary of artificial light. She makes stuff up to tell the truth about adversity, creating characters to care about and stories to make you think. She explores identity, mental health and social justice with compassion, humour and hope. A prize-winning short-story writer, she has published three novels and a short story collection with small independent press, Inspired Quill. Her debut novel, Sugar and Snails, was shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize. Away from her desk, Anne guides book-loving walkers through the Derbyshire landscape that inspired Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Subscribers to her newsletter can download a free e-book of award-winning short stories. |
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Anne Goodwin writes fiction for the freedom to contradict herself*
and has been scribbling stories ever since she could hold a pencil.
During her career as an NHS clinical psychologist
her focus was on helping other people
tell their neglected stories to themselves.
Now that her short fiction publication count has overtaken her age,
her ambition is to write and publish
enough novels to surpass her shoe size.
and has been scribbling stories ever since she could hold a pencil.
During her career as an NHS clinical psychologist
her focus was on helping other people
tell their neglected stories to themselves.
Now that her short fiction publication count has overtaken her age,
her ambition is to write and publish
enough novels to surpass her shoe size.
Her debut novel, Sugar and Snails,
about a woman who has kept her past identity a secret,
was published in July 2015
and shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize.
Her second novel, Underneath,
about a man who keeps a woman captive in his cellar,
was published in May 2017.
about a woman who has kept her past identity a secret,
was published in July 2015
and shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize.
Her second novel, Underneath,
about a man who keeps a woman captive in his cellar,
was published in May 2017.
Her third novel, Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home,
published in May 2021,
is inspired by her previous incarnation
as a clinical psychologist in a long-stay psychiatric hospital.
Author of over 100 published short stories,
and placed in several competitions,
her short story collection, Becoming Someone,
was published in November 2018.
Her first four books are published by Inspired Quill
and available through them
or other major major online retailers.
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Her fiction entertains while exploring themes of
identity, mental health and social justice.
Anne writes non-fiction articles and guest posts
about the interface between psychology and fiction.
She's also a book blogger
with a special interest in fictional therapists.
Anne juggles her sentences while walking in the Peak District,
only to lose them battling the slugs in her vegetable plot.
As a break from finding her own words, she is an avid reader
and barely-competent soprano in an all-comers choir.
identity, mental health and social justice.
Anne writes non-fiction articles and guest posts
about the interface between psychology and fiction.
She's also a book blogger
with a special interest in fictional therapists.
Anne juggles her sentences while walking in the Peak District,
only to lose them battling the slugs in her vegetable plot.
As a break from finding her own words, she is an avid reader
and barely-competent soprano in an all-comers choir.
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