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Although specialist with over they are affi liated to the national Mind 30 years industry charity, they are independent and rely on experience. donations, details are given on p17. Student Life is a few pages longer Licensed and with a recipe to inspire youngsters in insured for time for Mother's Day; two schools peace of mind. sharing their activities, and two support groups for young people who might be Free no experiencing mental health issues, or obligation need support with facing the world as consultation. gay, bisexual, lesbian or transgender. I hope that the community will embrace all elements of the magazine this month, from cover to cover. This month's author has won several awards for short stories and has a special interest in the American Civil War. There www.insidetarring.co.uk 5 Local Author he started to make Civil War trips for Award Winning their own sake, and when he started to write seriously, it made sense to follow Author his interest. "Civil war battlefields are various. They can be little more than a grown over old trench with a raised front that you have to track down off to the side of some Virginia backroad. Or they can be glorious outdoor museums with square miles of monuments and statues...I can almost touch the past; I can try to understand. These are hallowed places to most Americans, markers of an ordeal in their past that echoes all the way to today....in my short Richard Buxton stories I’ve been looking to trace the echoes, trying to see how they might The first novel from multi-award have played out over time: just after the winning short-story writer Richard war, when the veterans started to die Buxton was released in the spring of out; in the civil rights era; today." 2017. Richard writes both historical Richard continued, "As a new writer you fiction and stories set in the here and spend a lot of time doubting what you now, though his inclination is strongly are producing and if it’s of any relevance. towards the former. His time spent at The self-doubt can be useful in a way. university in upstate New York in his It leaves you in a cocoon where you twenties has imbued him with a lifelong are able to write freely because, hey, no interest in the story of America, in one’s going to read it anyway. Such was particular the schism and after effects of the case when I wandered alone around the American Civil War. He travels there a Kentucky battlefield and town and as often as he can for inspiration and wondered if the place had even now, a research. hundred and fifty years on, ever got over A career software engineer, Richard that single butchering day. I played with reached mid-life with a craving for time, imagined a town that had post- creativity. To satisfy this craving and traumatic stress, that couldn’t move on embark on a writing journey, Richard from the past, but had to keep trying to completed an M.A. in Creative Writing honour and understand its trauma. I just at Chichester University. His tutor let the story come out and sent it away, taught that even the past has a past. She no more hopeful than normal. When it encouraged Richard to think of settings won the 2015 Exeter Story Prize it was where time has special meaning, such a great breakthrough for me, and I had as museums and battlefields. Richard to take a step back from the story, and realised with his long-lived interest in look at it again, as if it were a painting the American Civil War, that he had that I’d never paid enough attention to. already made a point of going to just And it was all in there, what my tutor such places. Years before his interest had taught me, now and then collapsed in writing, Richard fuelled his Civil War into a single story. I love to find those interest by visiting battlefields when he connections, real or imagined, they can was in America on business. Eventually connect us to many possible pasts." 6 '01903 357003 Local Author Richard is compiling a collection of short stories that explore the long shadow of Whirligig is the Civil War. Many of his stories have available on won awards or have been published. amazon.co.uk His story Battle Town won the 2015 but Richard is Exeter Story Prize. Roller Coaster won also happy for the 2015 Bedford International Writing you to contact Competition. The Bread Man won the him via his Fabula Press Nivalis 2016 Short Story website to Competition. In April, Richard will have source the book a short story published in The Tishman locally. Review, a New York Literary Magazine and his fi rst US publication. "Most of my successful stories have www.richardbuxton.net. been inspired by being somewhere: creeps ever closer. The story weaves the a cold preserved battlefi eld, riding a adventure that Shire experiences in his train into the Appalachians, lost roads, valiant attempt to reach Clara. abandoned mines, a fl ight of canal locks. In Richard's own words "What I do love I love to feel out the depth of the past, about the book is the quality of the to wade in and fi nd its shelving point. book production and that much of it I like to imagine connections between was done in Worthing. My neighbour, moments in time. For me it's about Julia Brown, created the wonderful 19th fi nding a story that lives within the place century looking maps and my friend and the history." Juliet Croydon from Tarring created the Richard's fi rst novel, Whirligig, set in Whirligig sketch. So it’s a big local eff ort. Tennessee in the pivotal Civil War year of The cover was also a great creative 1863, was released in the spring of 2017. experience with Lucy Llewellyn at Head Whirligig is at once an outsider’s odyssey and Heart Book Design." through the battle for Tennessee, a Richard works on the committee of touching story of impossible love, and the West Sussex Writers (WSW) who a portrait of America at war with itself.