Simone Mansell BroomeSimone is an optimist, business woman, entrepreneur, mother, grandmother, lover of the stage as well as the page, animals and the environment. She has lived on a small organic farm in rural Carmarthenshire since 2007, jointly developing family busineses - Ceridwen Centre and Welsh Green Weddings. She's got a B.A. in English and American Studies and qualifications in teaching, including Speech and Drama and EFL.Simone is a published poet in magazines, ezines and anthologies, (as well as one pamphlet, one slim volume and a collection - 'Cardiff Bay Lunch' published by Lapwing, Belfast in 2010). She is a believer in stage and page and has read her work extensively; a significant part of the pleasure in writing for her lies in communicating - talks, readings, workshops, etc. She's dabbled in slams and once represented Wales in a Radio 4 performance poetry competition. There was a flurry of competition success including Winchester and Northampton 1st Prizes, and a number of places and highly commendeds between 2006 and 2010. She's only just started entering again this year. During the craziness of 2020, Simone's writing productivity exploded - a collaboration with an M.A. student at the University of Bucharest on the translation of 50 of Simone's earlier poems, commissioned pieces for ITV Sport for the Cheltenham Festival of Racing and for Royal Ascot and a blog about life in West Wales during the pandemic She published a children's book - 'Valletta and the Year of Changes', in 2021, and a book based on her lockdown blog - 'Pause, 12 months of going nowhere', in December 2022. Read More Read Less