I'm very proud to be Fiction Editor for EditRED, as I have a real belief in what this site is doing for new and aspiring writers. It's for that reason I workshop my own writing on the site and I really appreciate the feedback.
Since joining the site I've had the pleasure of adjudicating the 'City Smells' Flash Fiction competition and recently edited our second short fiction anthology 'Late-Night River Lights'.
As for life outside of this lovely writing community...well, after graduating from the University of Cambridge in 2006, where I read English as a mature student, I set up home in the city with my gorgeous kids.
I regularly publish my writing, and embarked upon an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia last year. This is a course I have aspired to for a long time. Ever since I read about the late Malcolm Bradbury's ambition to find and encourage new writers, I've dreamt of having the chance to go there. Graduates of the year-long programme include Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Tracy Chevalier and Toby Litt. I just hope a little of that magic rubs off on me! I have spent the past few months studying short fiction as a literary genre, and working on my novel.
I read the following quote by Raymond Carver a little while ago, and it sums up, not only what I would like to achieve with my own writing, but what has happened to me after reading many stories here on editRED:
"If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or our intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, 'created of warm blood and nerves', as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always Life." -- Raymond Carver
If you see me online, come and say hello.
Kelly
kellysmith's Genres: Short fiction, prose poetry, author interviews, book reviews.
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