Hello, I’m Meriel Whale, writer, therapist for writers, writing workshop leader and reading expert! My current works in progress are
The Edenists: Jeweller Harriet meets gender non-conforming Anne in Birmingham in 1851 and love and passion ensue. Even an enforced separation cannot douse the bright chains that bind them together.
The Liberation of Gerard Miller: Retired school caretaker Gerard finds himself looking after his unofficial twin grandchildren but the boys who live on his estate are messing with his mind. Will he survive and will the twins find home again?
The Singer: Sussex farmgirl Helena wants to escape to the bright lights of 1920s London to train for the stage but finds that the path to fame, to true love, to knowing who she is and to finding her mother is not going to be as easy as she thought.
Letters: Letters fly between people from 1891 to 2001 telling a queer history of one hundred years.
About
I’m a writer, counsellor and teacher and lead workshops for QWIL, Words That Heart and LGBT Switchboard. I was first published in an anthology in 1996 and most recently had a short story included in True Tales From the Old Hill (Frogmore Press, 2015) and was longlisted for two major competitions. I study with Susannah Waters (www.susannahwaters.com) and am an alumna of New Writing South’s two year Creative Writing Programme.
I was born in Birmingham in 1972 and have lived in York, Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, India and West Sussex and settled in Lewes in 2005. I write and run workshops in writing for wellbeing, creative writing and navigating grief. I read and write every day and have always known that reading is like breathing for me, an essential act - I have written since I knew how.
