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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 20843 times and 18 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Inspiration point limerick

Submitted on October 27, 2008 - 11:01 | 232 reads

By the cathedral

Submitted on October 18, 2008 - 12:45 | 631 reads

Kitchen devil

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 11:00 | 230 reads

Checkout

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 10:51 | 248 reads

Loophole

Submitted on October 9, 2008 - 13:44 | 250 reads

This poem is yours

Submitted on March 18, 2008 - 14:50 | 501 reads

Lady writers on the PC: The Orange Prize for Fiction

Submitted on March 17, 2008 - 12:17 | 334 reads

Coda poetica

Submitted on March 13, 2008 - 13:30 | 339 reads

The rose

Submitted on March 12, 2008 - 15:43 | 261 reads

The thinnest metal

Submitted on March 11, 2008 - 10:08 | 443 reads

Nine lives

Submitted on February 29, 2008 - 23:29 | 339 reads

Sometimes

Submitted on February 27, 2008 - 22:59 | 260 reads

A landscape of love: the poems of George Barker

Submitted on February 26, 2008 - 08:49 | 1466 reads

Bruised fruit

Submitted on February 24, 2008 - 21:56 | 356 reads

Unravelled

Submitted on February 21, 2008 - 10:02 | 277 reads

Lipstick

Submitted on February 20, 2008 - 23:06 | 453 reads

Pips

Submitted on February 16, 2008 - 00:04 | 318 reads

The midnight bird

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:53 | 482 reads

Wheel spin

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:50 | 357 reads

Solace

Submitted on February 9, 2008 - 22:22 | 276 reads

Angela Carter lives in London

Submitted on February 7, 2008 - 11:29 | 1077 reads

Arts Council heading for the Write Stuff?

Submitted on February 6, 2008 - 15:13 | 289 reads

Mr Venus

Submitted on February 5, 2008 - 10:21 | 346 reads

Muriel Spark meets Stephen King in Booktribes

Submitted on February 4, 2008 - 17:23 | 471 reads

Honey Bunny

Submitted on January 31, 2008 - 11:03 | 665 reads

Overdue

Submitted on January 29, 2008 - 09:48 | 309 reads

Rereading Sylvia Plath

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 19:11 | 803 reads

Remington rescue

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 06:47 | 364 reads

Redirection

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:17 | 290 reads

Lines returned

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:15 | 329 reads

Save

Submitted on January 23, 2008 - 06:44 | 353 reads

and it is lost

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 19:25 | 315 reads

Princess Leia: 21st century Muse

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 13:42 | 310 reads

The well-meant

Submitted on January 21, 2008 - 11:35 | 341 reads

Crisis in a cake shop

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:35 | 395 reads

Meaning

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:19 | 304 reads

Each Other’s Keeping

Submitted on January 16, 2008 - 13:28 | 368 reads

It seems

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 20:04 | 345 reads

ABC umbilical

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 15:52 | 318 reads

If you see fire

Submitted on January 14, 2008 - 22:59 | 294 reads

The Accidental Tourist in Baltimore

Submitted on January 12, 2008 - 09:36 | 853 reads

Beauty and the treatment

Submitted on January 10, 2008 - 10:30 | 328 reads

Dead Blog society

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 17:04 | 434 reads

Our Lady of Locomotion

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 14:01 | 363 reads

Late leaf

Submitted on January 7, 2008 - 13:58 | 341 reads

The Buddha was a fat man

Submitted on January 4, 2008 - 11:45 | 482 reads

Old lives

Submitted on January 1, 2008 - 18:13 | 413 reads

The scent of snowdrops

Submitted on December 31, 2007 - 14:33 | 553 reads

Inspiration Point- Every Word Counts

Submitted on December 25, 2007 - 23:25 | 346 reads

What the Dickens

Submitted on December 22, 2007 - 05:41 | 391 reads