Listen to me read here on the radio. Thanks to Hannah's Bookshelf, N Manchester radio. At the end of the hour they feature my hopeful poetry from lockdown.as seen in "Count Our Blessings" collection. 


https://podcast.canstream.co.uk/manchesterfm/index.php?id=42070

 About me

Member of the Society of Authors & NAWE 

I was born in Nottingham in the early sixties. As I got older, I moved further out into the countryside. Now, I live in the beautiful Vale of Belvoir but work all around the East Midlands.

 See the link to Nottingham UNESCO City of  Literature.  

 http://bit.ly/2pj4t6A

I am a member of Cornerstone church, attending with my family. 

Working in schools for many years has given me an insight into children's lives and issues. I endeavour to write authentically, using realistic language. Even as a child I'd enjoy telling stories!

My YA novel called 'Get Over It' is for sale at  Onwards and Upwards Publishers and Amazon, as well. .

I was on the radio!

In October 2010, I was recorded on the local community radio. This gives details of how I became a writer and there are readings from the Young Adult novel, 'Get Over It.' This was a great experience with the Reading Room presenter Paul Tyler, from Lincoln studios based at the University campus. To hear the podcast then, go to shows and Paul Tyler in the reading room. Click on Podcast 4. Or go to Reading Room Live Podcast 10A,  46 minutes in.

http://readingroom.podbean.com/page/6/

 Thanks!

What they are saying!

Here's some feedback from Lincoln Book Festival, May 2011 via Siren Fm Community Radio Broadcaster, Paul Tyler where I read the short story, 'Love'-

 Interesting acts as well, the lady who wrote about coping with the loss of a child stuck in my mind, was moving. 

 This was  on You tube! Go tohttp://readingroom.podbean.com/page/7/ to hear more

http://readingroom.podbean.com/e/room-6a-the-reading-room-christmas-special/  to view my work with children.

 Festival news from TransEuropa 2011!

Feedback from readings:

For 'Off the Beaten Track' short story May 2011, Shoreditch, London

From Arts 4 Human Rights-

'Your piece also received extremely good feedback, which I thought you would be pleased to know; and I know the other Romany focused performers were glad that you were involved, and enjoyed experiencing a further perspective on the Romany experience.'
Laura Ratling
Events Manager

Living in the countryside, I love to take a lot of my inspiration from the wonderful wildlife around me. I feel led to write about things that matter, so that hopefully my writing can inspire other people to think more deeply about some of these issues.

I care about the real things that affect young people and hope to reach them in realistic dialogue and relevant settings. I write in a contemporary style to click with the reader.

 New for 2021!

A collection of short stories & poetry 

Count Our Blessings

Order here £12 includes P & p


   paypal.me/FionaLinday


  My work was compared with Liz Carters at "Writing Hope" 

on More Than Writers blogspot. Please see 

http://morethanwriters.blogspot.com/2021/04/writing-hope-chat-with-fiona-linday-by.html

Living in the countryside, I love to take a lot of my inspiration from the wonderful wildlife around me. I feel led to write about things that matter, so that hopefully my writing can inspire other people to think more deeply about some of these issues.

I care about the real things that affect young people and hope to reach them in realistic dialogue and relevant settings. I write in a contemporary style to click with the reader.

To order a signed copy of inspirational Count Our Blessings,  please go to the link above or

paypal.me/FionaLinday




This is the Paypal link to order a copy here £12 order of a signed Count Our Blessings.

Then email me via contents page with your address via contacts page.

See author page @FionaLindayCOB and book launch party. There was a stunning review at "Writing in Education" issue 83, from Matthew Tett.

The book is included on a blog here, thanks to Sharon at Limitless-Horizon

March Share Four Somethings - limitless-horizon (limitless-horizon.com)

Wendy H Jones-bookaholic blogspot reviewed here-

Count Our Blessings Book Review https://bit.ly/3cKmIJe

Reviews are coming in at Goodreads, see Count Our Blessings by Fiona Linday | Goodreads

I write because I believe that stories have the power to reach into places that sermons and speeches cannot. Because I have spent decades inside schools and community centres and arts programs watching what happens when a learner encounters a story that finally names something they have been living but never seen written down. I have seen the relief on a face when a poem says what could not be said out loud. And I  wrote Count Our Blessings out of that same belief, that the world needs stories about inequality and injustice and pain and difference and, underneath all of it, the stubborn, irreducible presence of hope.

I'm grateful that my readers found that in my book. One of them said it was "both simple and profound." Another said it "touches your mind, your heart and your soul." A third called it "genuinely inspirational, a wonderful resource for these troubled times." My work was reviewed in "Writing in Education" journal. It was featured on Hannah's Bookshelf on North Manchester Radio. The Onwards and Upwards community embraced it. I wrote a book about the world the way it actually is, not the sanitized version, and I still managed to point toward hope.