THE PARISH COUNCIL
The last word in Bickering...
The Parish Council of Bickering on Sea is not a fictional group. Rather, we are the ones who run, manage and invented Bickering on Sea. The members of the Parish Council consider all short story and poetry submissions for publication.
All of us are passionate about writing, reading, creating, and helping other people to do the same.
We want Bickering on Sea to be a great place to visit and to contribute to. We want people who want to write to find a place where they are do just that and get their work to a wider audience. We also want to give people new, interesting and fun things to read when they visit our little seaside town.
We are not perfect (Yvette especially), but we are enthusiastic. We have different interests and very different writing styles, but we also know how good it is to find and work with others who are passionate about writing, and to find joy in encouraging and being encouraged.
To get in touch with any one of us, please use the contact page, or email bickeringonsea@gmail.com.
Jayjay Sanson
Full time compliance officer, part time church youth worker, and perennial scribbler and day dreamer, Jayjay still doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up.
Jayjay enjoys character development and will dabble in most genres. She is not averse to pushing characters off cliffs. She has been known to blog about travelling with her autistic younger brother, Matthew, under the moniker #GoingUnsaid.
Her favourite writers include Dorothy Dunnett, CS Lewis, Brandon Sanderson, Neil Gaiman, Joy Ellis, William Shakespeare, Jody Taylor, Jane Austen, Ann Cleeves, Aaron Sorkin, Norman Davies, Carlos Ruis Zafon... (how long have you got?).
Alongside a life-long love of writing, Jayjay sings and is a resident creative at Worship Music Records. She loves the North West of England where she lives, hikes and takes far too many photographs.
@jayjay.sanson, @going.unsaid
Nigel Warner
Nigel calls himself a writer and Funeral Celebrant. He has lots of children, loves football, hates too much detail, and would very much like people to be kinder to one another.
He would happily retire to his writing shed for the rest of his life, but has to work to feed his family.
He enjoys writing sci-fi, fantasy, and a bit of poetry, but will give anything a try. Nigel has something to say about most things, some of which even makes sense. His favourite authors are Terry Pratchett, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Harris, JK Rowling and Kate Atkinson (eclectic to say the least), and he is also partial to films, TV and video games.
@ttvnigel
Yvette Worth Sanson
Yvette’s old PR lecturer used to say that every PR person has a half-written novel under their bed. Not much has changed – other than the manuscripts being digital rather than on paper.
Yvette has worked in PR and marketing for years, mostly, though by no means exclusively, in the voluntary and building services sectors. From crafting winning award entries and ghost-writing technical articles, spinning advertising headlines to issuing news releases, what she particularly likes about PR is telling great stories.
However, all these are very, very factual, whereas she does really, really enjoy fiction. She’s happy to have it acted out for her, read to her, or to read it for herself – she loves her book club. She also loves the seaside and hopes to live there one day – the more like Bickering the better.
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@yvetteworthsanson