My first writing certificate from when I was a kid
While doing a spring clean today I found my first writing certificate from when I was a kid. It was fun to take a trip down memory lane especially since my writing career has come full circle and I now teach creative writing to teens in secondary education.
I started writing when I was a young child growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and this was the first time I was published in a young writers’ anthology called ‘Write and Shine’ from Poetry Now. Really fun to have rediscovered that old certificate 31 years later…aww!
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
Leilanie Stewart 