Having served her apprenticeship in a variety of jobs, including book-selling and buying, printing, small press publishing, and computer software supply and design, Zoe King turned to writing full time in 1990. Currently Vice Chair of the Society, she now works as a freelance writer, editor, and web designer, and also teaches creative writing. Her work has been widely published both in the UK and overseas. She wrote for some years for the gardening press, then moved into the business press, before concentrating on working with other writers. Her feature, Horatio Nelson: A Norfolk Hero, written for US site TimeTravel Britain can be seen here. As editor of first BuzzWords, then Cadenza, Zoe interviewed a variety of poets and writers, including Roger McGough, Monica Ali, Kenneth Stephen, Joanne Harris, and Kate Long. She also gained a reputation for her comprehensive and honest short story critiques, and is currently critiquing for the Society. Zoe started writing fiction in 1997, when she set up Diss Writers in her then home town in Norfolk. She has won a number of awards, including several first prizes in major competitions. Her fiction has been published both in print and online. ‘Polish Drains’ can be seen here, and ‘About to Become His Own Angel’ here. A regular workshop leader, (she was a panellist at The Geneva Writers’ Conference in 2001), she has taught on short story at the Society’s Summer Conference, at the QWF Convention in Glastonbury, and for ACT Writers in Australia, for whom she taught a one day workshop on her own creativity project, Journeys to Voice. She runs regular writers’ retreats from her home in the Norfolk Broads. Recent writing projects have included a contribution to Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story, from Salt Publishing, and working with a group of writers locally, to produce a new walks book, Happing Trails and Tales, published in June 2010. Zoe is currently in the planning stages of another book on short story, as yet untitled, and a short story collection is forthcoming with Salt. A member of the Society since 2001, Zoe is also a member of The Society of Authors, and EnglishPEN.   ZOE KING 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