WRITERS 2014

Janice Sampson, a Sheffield born Actor & writer, veteran of stage & screen and the qwerty keyboard. Having read a particularly dreadful book in 1994, I said I was sure I could do better so, I got my pen & paper out, rolled my sleeves up and wrote my first story.

I am a retired librarian living in Harrogate with my husband Jim, and our dog, Beth. I have always had a love of books and writing and my other main interests are fell running and walking the dog.

I loved writing as a teenager and feel I have now come full circle back to writing. I have been a community activist for the last 22years, volunteering for a number of charitable organisations, working in inter-faith, organising educational conferences and running parenting groups.

I grew up in 1950s Salford. The family home was a terraced house in a street that visitors nicknamed Coronation Street. I left school in 1966 and started work at a local textile mill as a laboratory assistant, testing the products made on the factory floor.

I love to tell stories, voiceover script and edit waveforms; my interests and passion. A multimedia journalist, broadcaster, writer, announcer, compère, voice-over audio producer, creative thinker, lover of laughter, truth and wisdom seeker.

Joleen White is an English and Film studies graduate of the University of Hull. She has also studied the Professional Graduate Certificate in Education for adult learners in Hull. Currently, she lives in Hull and was born in Wakefield.

Ruby Clarke is a writer/director based in York. Since completing her MA in Writing, Directing and Performance she has worked on many performances including The York Mystery Plays 2012, The Guinea Pig Club and the 2013 Waggon Plays as well as shorter Fringe pieces around York and festivals.