Penny Legg is a freelance writer, editor, photographer and writing tutor based in Southampton. She joined the SWWJ Council and became editor of The Woman Writer in 2008.   Penny has won a number of awards, including the Scroll Award for her interview with the Master of Cunard’s liner, Queen Mary II, and an outstanding Achievement Award for her work as editor of OCOCI Connection magazine. She has worked with prison officials to produce a magazine, competed in a regatta on a 1925 gaff-rigged Alden schooner (coming last!), interviewed cake-making DJs, ships’ captains, and military veterans. She is always on the look out for something else to write about and take photographs of. Her first book, Folklore of Hampshire was published by The History Press, closely followed by Southampton Then and Now, and Haunted Southampton. Penny is now busy on other books: Winchester: History You Can See, a photographic look at the history we take for granted in the ancient capital of Wessex, to be published in May 2011, and Voices of Southampton, a book of the reminiscences of Southampton residents, due in August 2011. Penny is a non-fiction writing tutor for The Writers Bureau  and runs her own writing consultancy, offering advice to creative writers of all ages. She gives workshops and talks on writing, photography and interesting aspects of her life - she is the wife of a British diplomat and has lived in Europe and the Indian Sub-Continent, as well as the Caribbean.  Penny is the founder of Southampton’s Writing Buddies, a group of published and aspiring writers in all genres, which meets to talk writing related issues, from the sad demise of the semi-colon to the state of book publishing in Britain today, over a cuppa once a fortnight, at The Art House Café in Southampton. A member of the National Union of Journalists, and an Ambassador for the SWWJ, Penny has her own website and blog, to both of which she welcomes visitors and comments.   PENNY LEGG HOME HISTORY COUNCIL MEMBERS MEMBER PROFILES MEMBER NEWS SOCIETY NEWS NATIONAL EVENTS COMPETITIONS REGIONAL GROUPS REGIONAL EVENTS OVERSEAS SECTION MEMBERSHIP FEES JOINING CRITIQUES WELFARE LINKS Back to Member Index Buy Now from Amazon Buy Now from Amazon Buy Now from Amazon