Published novelist and prize winning short story writer, BRIDGET WHELAN has taught creative writing on university courses, in draughty church halls and under a Mediterranean sun. She has also been Writer in Residence at a community centre serving the unemployed and low waged, and an online agony aunt for budding short story writers.

Her novel A GOOD CONFESSION was set in 1960s Ireland and London. Author and national newspaper columnist Miriam Stoppard said: “Bridget Whelan writes in the great Irish tradition of storytelling.  A Good Confession is an unputdownable, compelling love story about the conflict between passion and duty”

Bridget’s bestselling guide to writing BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL has won praise from bestselling novelists, university lecturers and students. It has also been called a bubble bath for jaded brains and the creative writing bible…