[ Alan Grant ] [ Lou Fletcher ] [ Sarah Adams ] [ Jo Sparkes ] [ George Zacal ] [ John Parsons ] [ Jessica Turnbull ] [ Heather Jill Grange ] [ Keith Black ]

We have a number of writers in the group that are published and self published writers. Many writers have won various competitions and you can visit their individual page to find out more about them below.

Alan Grant

Alan’s writing experience, began with a night class in 2001, and since then, he has completed several hundred short stories, poems, stage and radio plays, some of which were included in anthologies. His premiere collection “Short Stories for Longer Journeys” was published by Authorhouse in 2008, and is now available on Amazon and Kindle. In 2014 he was the first author to win a regional newspaper annual contest for the third time. Having been shortlisted for the Kenneth Branagh new playwright award in 2014, his latest short play “The School Crossing” has been selected by the Theatre Royal, Plymouth for a performance in the Drum Theatre in January 2015. Alan states….”my personal and working life has resulted in a series of experiences, exposures and events relating to a mass of wonderful people, with significant strengths, characters, issues, weaknesses, and ambitions. My characters are composites of me, them and us, plus a large sprinkling of imagination.

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Lou Fletcher

Lou is interested in writing for writing’s sake. However, he has been published as a winner of the Western Morning News short story competition with his supernatural “The Rocking Chair”, is self-published on Amazon with a Plymouth thriller “The Bohemian Ruby”, and has completed its sequel “The Ivory Tower”. Lou has recently finished a novella, a Tavistock based detective story called “Mute of Malice”, and has been published on the website UK Authors, and in a number of good food guides. He enjoys writing short stories that have a twist in the tail.

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Sarah Adams

Sarah moved to Plymouth in 1983, to study Literature and Philosophy at Marjons. After finishing a degree she decided not to return to Surrey, but set up home in Plymouth to be near the moors and the sea. She has recently feature in the PWG anthology and now a regular member of the group. She plans to produce two children’s books and publish poetry in the future

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Jo Sparkes

From the Pro Football Writers Association to the Film School at SCC, Jo’s adventures in writing have run the gamut.

Humor and interview articles for Arizona Sportsfans Network, scripts for children’s television, commercial work, and adjunct teaching at Film School at Scottsdale Community College led to writing fiction.

Her fantasy series The Legend of the Gamesmen, has garnered three B.R.A.G. Medallions and a 2015 silver IPPY award for Ebook Juvenile/YA Fiction. Frank Retrieval, an original film script, won the Kay Snow award, and her nonfiction work Feedback  How to Give It How to Get It: A Writer’s Guide to Spinning Gold has received high praise in the industry.

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George Zacal

Born in Zlin, Czechoslavakia and came to the UK as a young child. He has an Economics degree and worked in industry until he retired and has now started  writing short stories. The stories tend to be either 500 and 1500 words and cover a wide selection of topics – love, war, working lives and the comic elements of daily lives.

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John Parsons

John comes from the historic town of Topsham in south-east Devon and now lives in Plymouth. His main interests are leading walks on Dartmoor, photography, modern jazz and humanitarian work in developing countries. His photographic endeavours reached their pinnacle in 1972 when he submitted a ‘Landscape’ portfolio to the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and was enrolled as a Licentiate. Starting in the days of steam locomotives, John’s long career on the railway led him to drive High Speed Trains on the Penzance to Paddington route for Great Western. Over a hundred of his illustrated articles and stories from distant parts of the globe have been published on websites and in papers to promote the work of humanitarian organisations. His articles also featured in national magazines such as The Great Outdoors, Trail, and Bird Watching. ‘In addition,’ he stated, ‘my travel stories of tracking gorillas and a stand-off with elephants were printed in the Western Morning News and The Plymouth Herald.’ John is currently writing a series of 250 word travel stories for a church magazine.

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Jessica Turnbull

Jessica Turnbull is an author who mainly writes Young Adult Fantasy. However, she is hoping to branch into Sci-Fi, Horror and New Adult.

Books got her through her darkest years as a teenager, and she hopes that one day hers will inspire young people to keep going. She lives in the UK with her cat, Mishka.

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Heather Jill Grange

Heather left school at 16. She was a mature student at university. She has won first prizes in local and national competitions and in 2013 published her first collection of poetry. As well as short stories in newspapers, two of which have been broadcast by BBC Radio Devon, Heather has read on Radio St.Austell, Cornwall and at the Torbay Poetry Festival. She has also had five short plays performed and four iPODs presented, one of which was a stage reading in the DRUM, Theatre Royal. Heather has also appeared in the People’s Production of CITIZEN in the DRUM in 2019.

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Keith Black

Keith is a retired Detective Sergeant and a native of Plymouth, Devon. He lives in Plympton with his wife Janice. On retirement he spent some years as a tour guide. It was at this time he became interested in the true story of the 1797 Plymouth Executions on the Hoe. After extensive research he wrote ’The Circle on the Hill’. Written as faction with the knowledge identified by records from original sources. He joined the Plymouth Writers Group in 2018 and has contributed many stories into that forum.

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