The Sandhopper Lover /Jan Fortune (ed)
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The Sandhopper Lover & other stories & poems is a testimony to the breadth and quality of the new writing submitted to the seventh Cinnamon Press writing awards. Ranging from the perils of adoption in Guatemala to finely honed observations of how fragile sanity can be; from how quickly life can unravel when relationships fail to Kafka’s recipe for boiled cabbages, these talented writers weave fiction and life into a fascinating tapestry of stories and poems.
Jan Fortune studied theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge and did a PhD in feminist theology. She has worked as a teacher, parish priest and charity director and moved to North Wales in 2001, where she runs Cinnamon Press with her son, Rowan, and continues to try to learn Welsh. Jan has tutored creative writing courses for the Arvon Foundation, Open College of Arts, Women on Tour, Gardoussel Retreat and NAWE as well as running writing courses for Cinnamon Press.
Her publications include many articles, chapters and five non fiction books on alternative education and parenting, inspired by home educating her four (now adult) children, the most recent being Winning Parent, Winning Child; novels, including Dear Ceridwen, Coming Home, and a novel for teenagers, The Standing Ground, which is also popular with adults; a poetry collection and a prose poetry collection, Stale Bread & Miracles. She is currently working on a new novel and a long poetry sequence focussing on an abandoned slate mine and valley, Cwmorthin, near her home.