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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 equal 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 by Inspired Quill
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.
Author of over eighty published short stories,
and placed in several competitions,
in 2016 she was awarded First Prize
in the Writers’ Bureau short story competition
for “A Daughter Your Age”
and in the Ilkley Festival short story competition
for “Tobacco and Testosterone”.
Her short story collection, Becoming Someone,
will be published in November 2018 by Inspired Quill.
Her fiction explores themes of identity, mental health, marginalisation, attachment, gender, adolescent development, troublesome bodies and other psychological and social issues.
Anne is 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.
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 equal 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 by Inspired Quill
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.
Author of over eighty published short stories,
and placed in several competitions,
in 2016 she was awarded First Prize
in the Writers’ Bureau short story competition
for “A Daughter Your Age”
and in the Ilkley Festival short story competition
for “Tobacco and Testosterone”.
Her short story collection, Becoming Someone,
will be published in November 2018 by Inspired Quill.
Her fiction explores themes of identity, mental health, marginalisation, attachment, gender, adolescent development, troublesome bodies and other psychological and social issues.
Anne is 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.
