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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 53 stories in 7 collections on the site. My stories have been read 33422 times and 20 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Half crowns

Submitted on November 24, 2010 - 20:33 | 158 reads

Not resting at the Islington and Camden Cemetery

Submitted on October 29, 2010 - 23:41 | 149 reads

and Tracey dancing

Submitted on October 23, 2010 - 09:30 | 411 reads

Inspiration point limerick

Submitted on October 27, 2008 - 11:01 | 362 reads

By the cathedral

Submitted on October 18, 2008 - 12:45 | 1065 reads

Kitchen devil

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 11:00 | 383 reads

Checkout

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 10:51 | 375 reads

Loophole

Submitted on October 9, 2008 - 13:44 | 393 reads

This poem is yours

Submitted on March 18, 2008 - 14:50 | 775 reads

Lady writers on the PC: The Orange Prize for Fiction

Submitted on March 17, 2008 - 12:17 | 485 reads

Coda poetica

Submitted on March 13, 2008 - 13:30 | 580 reads

The rose

Submitted on March 12, 2008 - 15:43 | 407 reads

The thinnest metal

Submitted on March 11, 2008 - 10:08 | 781 reads

Nine lives

Submitted on February 29, 2008 - 23:29 | 602 reads

Sometimes

Submitted on February 27, 2008 - 22:59 | 389 reads

A landscape of love: the poems of George Barker

Submitted on February 26, 2008 - 08:49 | 2917 reads

Bruised fruit

Submitted on February 24, 2008 - 21:56 | 488 reads

Unravelled

Submitted on February 21, 2008 - 10:02 | 420 reads

Lipstick

Submitted on February 20, 2008 - 23:06 | 585 reads

Pips

Submitted on February 16, 2008 - 00:04 | 448 reads

The midnight bird

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:53 | 632 reads

Wheel spin

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:50 | 474 reads

Solace

Submitted on February 9, 2008 - 22:22 | 396 reads

Angela Carter lives in London

Submitted on February 7, 2008 - 11:29 | 2046 reads

Arts Council heading for the Write Stuff?

Submitted on February 6, 2008 - 15:13 | 399 reads

Mr Venus

Submitted on February 5, 2008 - 10:21 | 466 reads

Muriel Spark meets Stephen King in Booktribes

Submitted on February 4, 2008 - 17:23 | 659 reads

Honey Bunny

Submitted on January 31, 2008 - 11:03 | 1008 reads

Overdue

Submitted on January 29, 2008 - 09:48 | 470 reads

Rereading Sylvia Plath

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 19:11 | 1163 reads

Remington rescue

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 06:47 | 499 reads

Redirection

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:17 | 427 reads

Lines returned

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:15 | 459 reads

Save

Submitted on January 23, 2008 - 06:44 | 500 reads

and it is lost

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 19:25 | 447 reads

Princess Leia: 21st century Muse

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 13:42 | 453 reads

The well-meant

Submitted on January 21, 2008 - 11:35 | 473 reads

Crisis in a cake shop

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:35 | 664 reads

Meaning

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:19 | 438 reads

Each Other’s Keeping

Submitted on January 16, 2008 - 13:28 | 476 reads

It seems

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 20:04 | 465 reads

ABC umbilical

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 15:52 | 457 reads

If you see fire

Submitted on January 14, 2008 - 22:59 | 419 reads

The Accidental Tourist in Baltimore

Submitted on January 12, 2008 - 09:36 | 1817 reads

Beauty and the treatment

Submitted on January 10, 2008 - 10:30 | 463 reads

Dead Blog society

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 17:04 | 604 reads

Our Lady of Locomotion

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 14:01 | 493 reads

Late leaf

Submitted on January 7, 2008 - 13:58 | 463 reads

The Buddha was a fat man

Submitted on January 4, 2008 - 11:45 | 739 reads

Old lives

Submitted on January 1, 2008 - 18:13 | 543 reads

The scent of snowdrops

Submitted on December 31, 2007 - 14:33 | 1122 reads

Inspiration Point- Every Word Counts

Submitted on December 25, 2007 - 23:25 | 475 reads

What the Dickens

Submitted on December 22, 2007 - 05:41 | 640 reads