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Welcome to carolfenlon.com
The home of Carol Fenlon, novelist, short story writer and poet.
Carol has been writing short stories and poetry for fifteen years, many of which have been published in mainstream magazines and small press publications. She has also won prizes for her work in many literary competitions. Her debut novel Consider The Lilies, won the Impress Novel Prize 2007 and was published by Impress Books in June 2008.
Carol has recently completed a PhD in Creative writing at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk. and is also working on her second novel. She is an active member of several writing groups, including Skelmersdale Writers’ group and Ormskirk Writers’ and Literary Society.
STOP PRESS
Check out my book of the month for September, Wild Boy, by Jill Dawson, a fictional account of Victor, the eighteenth century wild boy of Aveyron.
Definitely a scouse feeling to September with new story 'Leaving Liverpool' and a poem of linked haikus 'Liverpool'
Proposed extension to Whitemoss Hazardous Landfill Site.The Joint Advisory Committee for Strategic Planning is due to meet on September 29th at 10.00am at County Hall, Preston and it is likely that the Site Allocation Plan will be on the agenda. This will include the proposals for the planned extension to Whitemoss Hazardous landfill site. If you are concerned about these proposals, please try to attend.Members of WRATH and ARROW will be attending. Up to date information about the meeting will be posted on the Facebook site, Say No To More Hazardous Waste In Skelmersdale (see link below.)
Skelmersdale Writers' Group new programme is now uploaded.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN SKELMERSDALE WAS FIRST DESIGNATED AS A NEW TOWN?
WERE YOU ONE OF THE FIRST GENERATION OF IMMIGRANTS TO THE NEW TOWN?
WERE YOU INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING AND DESIGN OF SKELMERSDALE NEW TOWN?
I am currently compiling a history of the making of the new town and am looking for old newspapers, photographs or simply people's memories of what Skem was like when it first became a new town. If you can help, please email me at writeme@carolfenlon.com
Read Carol's latest short story 'Half Mile Island' in Radgepacket Vol 4, now published by Byker Books . You can still get Radgepacket Vol 3 which includes Carol's story, 'Half Known Things' ( a coincidence of halves here?) available directly from Byker or from Amazon. If you like rough tales of the inner city, these collections are for you.
Buy Radgepacket 4 here Radge4
NOT ABOUT WRITING BUT ABOUT THE FUTURE OF SKELMERSDALE AND THE PROPOSED EXTENSION OF WHITEMOSS HAZARDOUS WASTE LANDFILL SITE
Public consultation has now closed with the Lancashire Minerals and waste Development Framework on proposals to extend the site at Whitemoss by incorporating a further large area of arable land and by granting a further time extension to the site's activities.
If this extension is granted it means the continuation of toxic waste being dumped for many years leaving us with a legacy which will last way beyond the actual life of the site..
The Whitemoss site is situated in the middle of our best arable land, amongst incresingly rare peat deposits which should be conserved. The effect on the local water table and watercourses such as the river Tawd cannot be ruled out for all time.
It currently surrounds several residential properties and the proposed extension will further encroach on homes along Whitemoss Road South.The group West Lancs Residents against Toxic hazards has been formed to explore what the proposed extension to the site means for local residents and to bring such matters to the attention of the local authority and to the people of Skelmersdale. For more information email WRATH.2010@yahoo.com
If the prospect of continued toxic dumping in Skem concerns you please do something to make your voice heard and join WRATH. It is only through joining forces that we can hope to have any effect. We can do nothing about the dumping which has already taken place but we may be able to effect damage limitation. It is not just our land it is our children's futures. Hasn't Skem been dumped on enough already?
Please pass this information on to your friends and relatives. There is a group on Facebook, SAY NO TO MORE HAZARDOUS WASTE IN SKELMERSDALE which you can join to show solidarity. Click on the facebook link at the bottom of this pageto access. Please feel free to email me with comments, information or ideas. writeme@carolfenlon.com
To join the Facebook group 'SAY NO TO MORE HAZARDOUS WASTE IN SKELMERSDALE CLICK HERE
Member of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists and also of the Society of Authors.
Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney: Watson,Little Ltd.
Carol lives in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, UK and is available for creative writing workshops and for readings from her work.
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