Dea CostelloeDea (who also writes as Doreen Grey) started writing after her retirement. As well as poems she writes monologues, short stories and short plays and has been successful in having some of her work published in anthologies, magazines, including The Oldie (Ed Richard Ingrams 2011) and newspapers The Guardian’s Family section (October 2017).
Dea has had plays performed at The Pomegranite Theatre, Chesterfield, The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton on Trent and Sharpe’s Pottery museum, Swadlincote. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies dating from 2005 to 2018. Dea won The Melbourne Festival Creative Writing Competition in 2008 and runner up in the Free Verse poetry section of the National Association of Writers’ Groups annual competition in 2007. She has read a number of her poems and short stories at public events. A collection of her poems called Transformed (2017) is her latest publication. Dea now lives with her husband in Stroud, Gloucester and enjoys gardening, walking in the beautiful surrounding countryside, singing in a choir, playing in a recorder ensemble and, of course, creative writing. |
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