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Helen Kitson

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I live in Worcester with my husband (YA author Elon Dann) and our two grown-up children. I hold an MA in Art History and work as a legal secretary.

My first poetry collection was nominated for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. In 1996 I was joint winner of the BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year competition. In 2016 I was shortlisted for the Dundee Book Prize.

My short fiction has appeared in many magazines, including Ambit, The Reader, Feminist Review, and Stand.

My novels, 'The Last Words of Madeleine Anderson' and 'Old Bones', are published by Louise Walters Books and set in the fictional Shropshire village of Morevale.
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Average rating: 3.64 · 196 ratings · 74 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
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Old Bones

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Love Among the Guilty

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Seeing's believing: Poems

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The Family Romance

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Every thing must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindoos give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus

Iris Murdoch
“She could have a good career. She could be secretary to some interesting man.'
'I don't want her to be secretary to some interesting man,' said Mor, 'I want her to be an interesting woman and have someone else be her secretary.”
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Sylvia Plath
“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have pure motives (oh-it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing. It is more fun to me, than it was when I used it solely as a love-and-admiration-getting mechanism [...]. But I still want to see it finally ritualized in print.”
Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956–1963

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