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:

Historical Novels:

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

Short Story Collection:

Holding Stones, a first collection of short stories, (Pewter Rose Press, 2009).

Other published short fiction:

Holding Stones in Staple 68 (Winter 2007)
Lazarus in Staple 65 (Summer 2006) (*Read this story elsewhere on this site).
Sleeping Beauty, in 3D: New fiction and poetry (Laundrette Books, 2006)
Victoria online at pulp.net, (December 2005) (*Read this story elsewhere on this site).
The Garden Fosseway Writers competition winner, (November 2005)
Reservoir in Staple 61 (Winter 2004)

Memoir:

Wilford: an English Village in the 1950s in Maps (Five Leaves Publications, 2011).
The Power House in Staple 68, Winter 2007.

Poetry:

Sunday Worship Runner-up in the National Trust Landlines poetry competition, Summer 2011. (*Read this poem on this site).
The Vicar of Derwent in Fin 4 (Spring 2010),
Wittgenstein in Ireland in Fin 3 (Summer 2009),
Poems in Staple (Winter 2003) and Poetry Nottingham International, Summer 2001, Autumn 2001 (as Feature Poet), Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003.

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.
Staple 71 (Summer 2009), ‘Friar’s Balsam,’ a review of Peter Day’s poetry collection If: Selected Poems.