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Kim Rooney, is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's MA in Life Writing.


It's how she came to write about the poets George Barker and Anne Sexton.


She also writes poetry and won second prize in the 2007 English Association Fellows' Poetry Prize.

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Right now, I have 50 stories in 7 collections on the site. My stories have been read 16863 times and 18 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Inspiration point limerick

Submitted on October 27, 2008 - 11:01 | 188 reads

By the cathedral

Submitted on October 18, 2008 - 12:45 | 417 reads

Kitchen devil

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 11:00 | 192 reads

Checkout

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 10:51 | 206 reads

Loophole

Submitted on October 9, 2008 - 13:44 | 207 reads

This poem is yours

Submitted on March 18, 2008 - 14:50 | 420 reads

Lady writers on the PC: The Orange Prize for Fiction

Submitted on March 17, 2008 - 12:17 | 281 reads

Coda poetica

Submitted on March 13, 2008 - 13:30 | 267 reads

The rose

Submitted on March 12, 2008 - 15:43 | 204 reads

The thinnest metal

Submitted on March 11, 2008 - 10:08 | 315 reads

Nine lives

Submitted on February 29, 2008 - 23:29 | 269 reads

Sometimes

Submitted on February 27, 2008 - 22:59 | 208 reads

A landscape of love: the poems of George Barker

Submitted on February 26, 2008 - 08:49 | 1000 reads

Bruised fruit

Submitted on February 24, 2008 - 21:56 | 309 reads

Unravelled

Submitted on February 21, 2008 - 10:02 | 232 reads

Lipstick

Submitted on February 20, 2008 - 23:06 | 411 reads

Pips

Submitted on February 16, 2008 - 00:04 | 261 reads

The midnight bird

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:53 | 442 reads

Wheel spin

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:50 | 306 reads

Solace

Submitted on February 9, 2008 - 22:22 | 232 reads

Angela Carter lives in London

Submitted on February 7, 2008 - 11:29 | 727 reads

Arts Council heading for the Write Stuff?

Submitted on February 6, 2008 - 15:13 | 252 reads

Mr Venus

Submitted on February 5, 2008 - 10:21 | 303 reads

Muriel Spark meets Stephen King in Booktribes

Submitted on February 4, 2008 - 17:23 | 426 reads

Honey Bunny

Submitted on January 31, 2008 - 11:03 | 571 reads

Overdue

Submitted on January 29, 2008 - 09:48 | 250 reads

Rereading Sylvia Plath

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 19:11 | 570 reads

Remington rescue

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 06:47 | 329 reads

Redirection

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:17 | 240 reads

Lines returned

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:15 | 273 reads

Save

Submitted on January 23, 2008 - 06:44 | 308 reads

and it is lost

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 19:25 | 268 reads

Princess Leia: 21st century Muse

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 13:42 | 259 reads

The well-meant

Submitted on January 21, 2008 - 11:35 | 287 reads

Crisis in a cake shop

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:35 | 306 reads

Meaning

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:19 | 269 reads

Each Other’s Keeping

Submitted on January 16, 2008 - 13:28 | 340 reads

It seems

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 20:04 | 313 reads

ABC umbilical

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 15:52 | 281 reads

If you see fire

Submitted on January 14, 2008 - 22:59 | 256 reads

The Accidental Tourist in Baltimore

Submitted on January 12, 2008 - 09:36 | 556 reads

Beauty and the treatment

Submitted on January 10, 2008 - 10:30 | 278 reads

Dead Blog society

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 17:04 | 393 reads

Our Lady of Locomotion

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 14:01 | 336 reads

Late leaf

Submitted on January 7, 2008 - 13:58 | 306 reads

The Buddha was a fat man

Submitted on January 4, 2008 - 11:45 | 407 reads

Old lives

Submitted on January 1, 2008 - 18:13 | 370 reads

The scent of snowdrops

Submitted on December 31, 2007 - 14:33 | 418 reads

Inspiration Point- Every Word Counts

Submitted on December 25, 2007 - 23:25 | 294 reads

What the Dickens

Submitted on December 22, 2007 - 05:41 | 310 reads