About Maxine - Personal

Maxine was born in 1948, and has two adult children. She loves gardens and gardening, walking and singing. She has spent some time in South Africa, and feels a strong connection there. She has had periods of ill-health, and is familiar with physical pain.

She has lived in Leicester, Birmingham, Bristol and Hartland in North Devon. She has been back in Leicester, where she still has family, since 2000.

Writer

Maxine Linnell has been a writer for most of her life, publishing poetry, short stories and articles.

Her play, Thanks a Lot Elton, was commended in the 1998 National One-Act Play Competition, awarded Best Original Play in the Leicestershire One-Act Play Festival in 2001, and is published by Spotlight Publications.

She is currently working on a stage play and two radio plays, as well as writing articles and reviews.

She has had poems published in Envoi, Nottingham Poetry, Interpreter's House, Fin and Tripod, and won first prize in 2008 Earlyworks Poetry Competition. She completed her MA in Creative Writing with a distnction at Nottingham Trent University in 2007, and is currently President of Leicester Writers' Club.

She is now working on a second novel for young adults.