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Bea Davenport

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Bea Davenport is the writing name of former print and broadcast journalist Barbara Henderson.Her first crime/suspense novel, In Too Deep, was a runner-up in the Luke Bitmead Bursary and published by Legend Press in 2013. A second crime/suspense novel. This Little Piggy, was also published by Legend Press in 2014.
Bea spent many years as a newspaper reporter and latterly seventeen years as a senior broadcast journalist with the BBC in the north-east of England. She has a Creative Writing PhD from Newcastle University where she studied under the supervision of award-winning writer Jackie Kay and renowned literature expert Professor Kim Reynolds. The children's novel produced as part of the PhD, The Serpent House, was shortlisted for a Times/Ch
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Bea Davenport I have a YA novel that's complete in early draft but needs editing; I have a crime/suspense WIP that's in the very early stages of first writing and I…moreI have a YA novel that's complete in early draft but needs editing; I have a crime/suspense WIP that's in the very early stages of first writing and I am about a third of the way through a sequel to The Serpent House.(less)
Bea Davenport I don't get it very often - my main problem is finding time to write. But one thing I usually do is have two writing projects on the go. That way if I…moreI don't get it very often - my main problem is finding time to write. But one thing I usually do is have two writing projects on the go. That way if I am not inspired to write for one of them, I usually am ready to write for the other. (less)
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In Too Deep

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This Little Piggy

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Headspace and New Goals

As anyone who’s asked about my writing recently will know, I’ve been going through a frustrating hiatus.

It’s down to lack of time, to some extent, but that’s not the main issue. It’s really about headspace.

Of course, if you want to teach creative writing, you should be a successful practitioner. By that I mean you should have had at least one book commercially published. (I say “commercially

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“The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.”
Bea Davenport, In Too Deep

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