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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 poets, George Barker and Anne Sexton, and the Victorian heroine Grace Darling.


She also writes poetry and fiction and is assistant editor at www.hagsharlotsheroines.com.

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Right now, I have 46 stories in 7 collections on the site. My stories have been read 9782 times and 16 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

This poem is yours

Submitted on March 18, 2008 - 14:50 | 219 reads

Lady writers on the PC: The Orange Prize for Fiction

Submitted on March 17, 2008 - 12:17 | 125 reads

Coda poetica

Submitted on March 13, 2008 - 13:30 | 127 reads

The rose

Submitted on March 12, 2008 - 15:43 | 94 reads

The thinnest metal

Submitted on March 11, 2008 - 10:08 | 127 reads

Nine lives

Submitted on February 29, 2008 - 23:29 | 164 reads

Sometimes

Submitted on February 27, 2008 - 22:59 | 105 reads

A landscape of love: the poems of George Barker

Submitted on February 26, 2008 - 08:49 | 396 reads

Bruised fruit

Submitted on February 24, 2008 - 21:56 | 197 reads

Unravelled

Submitted on February 21, 2008 - 10:02 | 127 reads

Lipstick

Submitted on February 20, 2008 - 23:06 | 255 reads

Pips

Submitted on February 16, 2008 - 00:04 | 167 reads

The midnight bird

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:53 | 316 reads

Wheel spin

Submitted on February 12, 2008 - 15:50 | 210 reads

Solace

Submitted on February 9, 2008 - 22:22 | 147 reads

Angela Carter lives in London

Submitted on February 7, 2008 - 11:29 | 356 reads

Arts Council heading for the Write Stuff?

Submitted on February 6, 2008 - 15:13 | 164 reads

Mr Venus

Submitted on February 5, 2008 - 10:21 | 210 reads

Muriel Spark meets Stephen King in Booktribes

Submitted on February 4, 2008 - 17:23 | 233 reads

Honey Bunny

Submitted on January 31, 2008 - 11:03 | 397 reads

Overdue

Submitted on January 29, 2008 - 09:48 | 160 reads

Rereading Sylvia Plath

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 19:11 | 352 reads

Remington rescue

Submitted on January 25, 2008 - 06:47 | 236 reads

Redirection

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:17 | 151 reads

Lines returned

Submitted on January 24, 2008 - 07:15 | 141 reads

Save

Submitted on January 23, 2008 - 06:44 | 207 reads

and it is lost

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 19:25 | 183 reads

Princess Leia: 21st century Muse

Submitted on January 22, 2008 - 13:42 | 140 reads

The well-meant

Submitted on January 21, 2008 - 11:35 | 205 reads

Crisis in a cake shop

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:35 | 193 reads

Meaning

Submitted on January 20, 2008 - 07:19 | 178 reads

Each Other’s Keeping

Submitted on January 16, 2008 - 13:28 | 246 reads

It seems

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 20:04 | 222 reads

ABC umbilical

Submitted on January 15, 2008 - 15:52 | 183 reads

If you see fire

Submitted on January 14, 2008 - 22:59 | 172 reads

The Accidental Tourist in Baltimore

Submitted on January 12, 2008 - 09:36 | 284 reads

Beauty and the treatment

Submitted on January 10, 2008 - 10:30 | 182 reads

Dead Blog society

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 17:04 | 283 reads

Our Lady of Locomotion

Submitted on January 8, 2008 - 14:01 | 237 reads

Late leaf

Submitted on January 7, 2008 - 13:58 | 195 reads

The Buddha was a fat man

Submitted on January 4, 2008 - 11:45 | 289 reads

Old lives

Submitted on January 1, 2008 - 18:13 | 254 reads

The scent of snowdrops

Submitted on December 31, 2007 - 14:33 | 241 reads

Inspiration Point- Every Word Counts

Submitted on December 25, 2007 - 23:25 | 200 reads

What the Dickens

Submitted on December 22, 2007 - 05:41 | 211 reads

Baker Street

Submitted on December 22, 2007 - 00:13 | 301 reads