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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 35243 times and 20 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Half crowns

Submitted on November 24, 2010 - 20:33 | 182 reads

Not resting at the Islington and Camden Cemetery

Submitted on October 29, 2010 - 23:41 | 188 reads

and Tracey dancing

Submitted on October 23, 2010 - 09:30 | 433 reads

Inspiration point limerick

Submitted on October 27, 2008 - 11:01 | 384 reads

By the cathedral

Submitted on October 18, 2008 - 12:45 | 1130 reads

Kitchen devil

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 11:00 | 407 reads

Checkout

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 10:51 | 392 reads

Loophole

Submitted on October 9, 2008 - 13:44 | 415 reads

This poem is yours

Submitted on March 18, 2008 - 14:50 | 817 reads

Lady writers on the PC: The Orange Prize for Fiction

Submitted on March 17, 2008 - 12:17 | 518 reads

Coda poetica

Submitted on March 13, 2008 - 13:30 | 619 reads

The rose

Submitted on March 12, 2008 - 15:43 | 427 reads

The thinnest metal

Submitted on March 11, 2008 - 10:08 | 797 reads

Nine lives

Submitted on February 29, 2008 - 23:29 | 659 reads

Sometimes

Submitted on February 27, 2008 - 22:59 | 407 reads

A landscape of love: the poems of George Barker

Submitted on February 26, 2008 - 08:49 | 3061 reads

Bruised fruit

Submitted on February 24, 2008 - 21:56 | 507 reads

Unravelled

Submitted on February 21, 2008 - 10:02 | 441 reads

Lipstick

Submitted on February 20, 2008 - 23:06 | 597 reads

Pips

Submitted on February 16, 2008 - 00:04 | 466 reads

The midnight bird

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:53 | 643 reads

Wheel spin

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:50 | 497 reads

Solace

Submitted on February 9, 2008 - 22:22 | 409 reads

Angela Carter lives in London

Submitted on February 7, 2008 - 11:29 | 2165 reads

Arts Council heading for the Write Stuff?

Submitted on February 6, 2008 - 15:13 | 421 reads

Mr Venus

Submitted on February 5, 2008 - 10:21 | 480 reads

Muriel Spark meets Stephen King in Booktribes

Submitted on February 4, 2008 - 17:23 | 690 reads

Honey Bunny

Submitted on January 31, 2008 - 11:03 | 1081 reads

Overdue

Submitted on January 29, 2008 - 09:48 | 484 reads

Rereading Sylvia Plath

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 19:11 | 1216 reads

Remington rescue

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 06:47 | 533 reads

Redirection

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:17 | 450 reads

Lines returned

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:15 | 483 reads

Save

Submitted on January 23, 2008 - 06:44 | 526 reads

and it is lost

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 19:25 | 466 reads

Princess Leia: 21st century Muse

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 13:42 | 475 reads

The well-meant

Submitted on January 21, 2008 - 11:35 | 492 reads

Crisis in a cake shop

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:35 | 707 reads

Meaning

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:19 | 453 reads

Each Other’s Keeping

Submitted on January 16, 2008 - 13:28 | 489 reads

It seems

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 20:04 | 483 reads

ABC umbilical

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 15:52 | 479 reads

If you see fire

Submitted on January 14, 2008 - 22:59 | 435 reads

The Accidental Tourist in Baltimore

Submitted on January 12, 2008 - 09:36 | 2002 reads

Beauty and the treatment

Submitted on January 10, 2008 - 10:30 | 489 reads

Dead Blog society

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 17:04 | 629 reads

Our Lady of Locomotion

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 14:01 | 511 reads

Late leaf

Submitted on January 7, 2008 - 13:58 | 484 reads

The Buddha was a fat man

Submitted on January 4, 2008 - 11:45 | 786 reads

Old lives

Submitted on January 1, 2008 - 18:13 | 564 reads

The scent of snowdrops

Submitted on December 31, 2007 - 14:33 | 1194 reads

Inspiration Point- Every Word Counts

Submitted on December 25, 2007 - 23:25 | 497 reads

What the Dickens

Submitted on December 22, 2007 - 05:41 | 683 reads