WRITERS ABROAD MAGAZINE: THE THIRD SPACE
WA Members
Many thanks to all the WA members around the world for their support in
producing the WA magazine:
Dianne Ascroft, Northern Ireland
Laura Besley, Hong Kong
Susan Borgersen, S.B. Borgersen Nova Scotia
Jill Brown, France
Nicola Cleasby (Nina Croft), Spain
Vanessa Couchman France
Alyson Hilbourne, Japan
Jo Lamb (Louise Charles), Italy
Chris Nedahl, Spain
Crilly O’Neil, Australia
Sally Robinson, The Netherlands
Maggie Shelton, Arizona
Bieke Stengos, Canada
Lesley Truchet, France
Nigel Wild – France, our newest member!
Angela Williams (Susan Carey), The Netherlands
WA MEMBER SPOTLIGHT:
LAURA BESLEY
Laura Besley started writing when she moved to
Germany ten years ago. Initially she wrote
embellished non-fiction about her travels throughout
Europe and when she moved to Hong Kong eight
years ago, she began writing fiction. In May 2012 she
started a flash fiction challenge: to write one story a
day for a year. This helped her writing in many ways,
most of all in learning how to finish a piece. Every
Friday ‘the best of the week’ was published on her
blog: Living, Loving and Writing.
Since then she has been in love with the short form
and still writes predominantly short fiction, with the
odd attempt at a novel thrown in from time to time.
Laura lives in Hong Kong with her husband and
three-year-old son and fits her writing into the
bookends of the day.
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