This section gives details of some of the members of the Geneva Writers' Group and information about their work. The range of writing covered is broad, including fiction (short stories, novels, children's stories), memoir, autobiography, articles, essays, poetry and non fiction. Some members are also working on plays, screenplays, multimedia projects, and teaching modules. Others write regular journalistic columns. You can follow the links in many of the biographical paragraph to discover more about an individual member's work.
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JACQUELINE COOPER, born Alexandria. “Cocktails and Camels,” “Tales From Alexandria” “Scribbles,” ”The Crazy Cat Saloon,” “You Never Know-Moments.” Author/illustrator of 4 bilingual picture books: “Toby And The Escalade,” “Kevin And The Escalade Race,” “William Tell,” “Cat Day.” Member of P.E.N., and “Society of Women Writers (UK). Contact her here.
ZEKI ERGAS’s collection of essays In Search of a Better World has been published in Budapest, and is also available at Off The Shelf bookshop in Geneva. Or contact Zeki, here, if you wish to buy a copy direct. A review of this book can be read on the web site of Share The World's Resources.
MAVIS GUINARD‘s Made in Switzerland/Petit Guide de la Suisse Insolite, features that first appeared in the International Herald Tribune, newly updated with French translation. For all curious about Swiss myths, trains, navy, cleanliness, dinosaurs, Frankenstein's birthplace or Sherlock Holmes last hideout. At Editions Metropolis, Geneva and local bookstores. www.editionsmetropolis.com
MARLENE JEANRENAUD: Memoir: The Magic of Africa, Campfire Tales & Stories; Poetry: Ebb & Flow, Watermarks and Shifting Sands. Available from Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Chapters, Payot (Chantepoulet, Geneva) and Off The Shelf (Geneva.). Dedicated copies available from author: jeanrenaud.m@freesurf.ch Website: www.serenityhealing.ch
DINAH LEE KÜNG, author of A Visit from Voltaire, gives regular updates on PEN's Honorary Prisoners on her website at http://www.dinahleekung.com
DUNCAN McGIBBON is a full-time poet, living in Berne. His poems have appeared in Offshoots 9, Aesthetica (UK) and are being featured in a forthcoming anthology, Divers, to be published by Aark Arts Press in June 2008. He was a prize-winner at the 2006 Wells Literary Festival.
GAIL MANGOLD-VINE's work as a journalist is published worldwide. Her first book, Touring Geneva Wine Country, appeared in 2004. A member of the Geneva Writers' Group since its inception, Gail is also a member of International PEN. For more information about Gail and her work, go to cfscommunication.
MELISSA MILLER is a novice free-lance children's writer and aspiring children's novelist. Her work has appeared in Appleseeds and Offshoots 9.
CATHERINE NELSON-POLLARD is a British freelance writer specialising on articles on expatriate issues. See her website, catherinenelson-pollard.com, for more details and examples of her published work.
DANIELA I. NORRIS is an ex-diplomat turned full-time writer. She has lived, worked and published short stories and articles in three continents. She currently resides near Geneva, and is working on a series of political thrillers set at the United Nations. www.danielanorris.com
SYLVIA PETTER, an Australian now based in Vienna, continues to maintain active links with the Geneva Writers’ Group.
ALISTAIR SCOTT - writer and photographer - has travelled widely, from Africa to the Arctic. He writes articles, poems and a bi-weekly European Markets column for World Wide Freelance Writer. You can browse through his latest book, The Greatest Photography Tips in the World, here, and buy it direct from the author.
SUSAN TIBERGHIEN's fourth book, One Year to a Writing Life, was published by Marlowe in September 2007. Her other books, essays, stories are noted on her website, as well as future workshops. She is grateful to all those who continue to encourage her (GWG, IWWG, and her agent Susan Schulman). www.susantiberghien.com
LIVIA VARJU was on Editorial Board of three journals, started HCR Dialogue as Editor-in-Chief. Articles, humour, poems, translations in journals, anthologies, Internet. Gold medal for poetry translations. Wrote Swissericks – humorous verses about Switzerland, edited Fraud, Waste and Abuse, about the UN. Is the representative of Universal Alliance.
Contact: info@GenevaWritersGroup.org