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It’s a tiny pilot light to keep the faith in your writing alive.
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Who is Jo Gatford?
Jo is an award-winning writer, novelist, poet and scriptwriter who feels deeply uncomfortable writing about herself in the third person, but here we are. She has been a professional copyeditor, proofreader, writing mentor and fiction editor for over 15 years and has been teaching creative writing and narrative theory for almost a decade.
Her debut novel White Lies was published by Legend Press and her chapbook The Woman’s Part was published by Stanchion Books. She has over 50 publications of short fiction and poetry all over the shop, and recently won an award from CenterFrame to develop a historical TV drama script.
She lives in Brighton with her gloriously weird family and her neurotic dog.
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