Roberta J Dewa: Writing CV

Work in progress:

The Memory of Bridges, a memoir: my first-person account of the reclamation of my past, a lost family and a lost history. (*Read an extract elsewhere on this site).

Home: (currently in revision), a novel about loss of memory and identity, a story told by two women who have met before, but have forgotten one another’s existence. (*Read an extract elsewhere on this site).

Published Works:

Novels:

Lackland's Lady (Robert Hale, 1980);
The Fortune Stone (Robert Hale, 1982);
The Shadow King (Robert Hale, 1984).

Short Fiction:

Reservoir in Staple 61, Winter 2004.
The Garden Fosseway Writers competition winner, November 2005.
Victoria online at pulp.net, December 2005. (*Read this story elsewhere on this site).
Sleeping Beauty, in 3D: New fiction and poetry, Laundrette Books, 2006.
Lazarus in Staple 65, Summer 2006. (* Read this story elsewhere on this site).
Holding Stones in Staple 68, Winter 2007.
The Power House (memoir extract), in Staple 68, Winter 2007. (* Read this story elsewhere on this site).
Holding Stones, a first collection of short stories, Pewter Rose Press, 2009.

Poetry:

Poems in Poetry Nottingham International, Summer 2001, Autumn 2001 (as Feature Poet), Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003.
Poems in Staple 58 (Winter 2003), Sunday Worship and Marilyn: The Misfits (*Read these poems elsewhere on this site).

Reviews:

In Poetry Nottingham International, Winter 2001, Summer 2002, Summer 2003.

In Staple,
Staple 60 (Summer 2004), ‘Not Without Trace’: a review of Josephine Dickinson’s poetry collection The Voice.
Staple 64 (Spring 2006), ‘Facts of Life’: a review of Anna Wigley’s collection of short stories, Footprints.
Staple 68 (Winter 2007), ‘Awkward Relatives’: a review of Jay Merill’s short story collection, Astral Bodies.