Helen Laycock

SHORT STORIES
Helen Laycock's short stories appear in a variety of anthologies and magazines as well as in her own collections, and have been successful in many writing competitions. Her first attempt at play-writing secured her a shortlisting in Pint-Sized Plays in 2016.
FLASH FICTION
In 2018, she was commissioned as a lead writer at Visual Verse and her flash fiction has featured in several editions of The Best of CafeLit. Recently, pieces have been showcased in the Cabinet of Heed, Reflex Fiction, the Ekphrastic Review and Lucent Dreaming – whose inaugural flash competition she won. She was longlisted in Mslexia’s 2019 flash fiction competition and her work was selected to appear in the 2019 Flash Flood Journal as part of National Flash Fiction Day.
CHILDREN'S FICTION (MG)
She has penned nine children's books for 8-12-year-olds and is employed as a writer by an educational publisher.
POETRY
Helen Laycock's poetry has most recently appeared in Popshot, Poems for Grenfell (Onslaught) and Full Moon and Foxglove (Three Drops Press), and her children's poetry has been twice published in The Caterpillar Magazine. Her poems appear in several further anthologies. She won the David St. John Writing Awards for Novice Poetry in 2006.

She also writes humorous verse.

She has four websites:
Helen Laycock | Fiction in a Flash
http://helenlaycock.wix.com/fiction-i...

Helen Laycock | Children's Author
http://helenlaycock.wix.com/helen-lay...

Helen Laycock|Poetry
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/marb...

Tiny Tales
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/tiny...

All her books are available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Helen-Laycock...

http://www.amazon.com/Helen-Laycock/e...


She can be followed on Facebook:
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and Twitter:
@helen_laycock
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and on her blog:
https://catchingcottonclouds.wordpres...