Writing: Prizes, Publications and Works In Progress

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SCRIPTS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE - ROYALTY FREE
Ideal for amateur dramatics groups, indie film makers, emerging writers and content creators, the following scripts are available to purchase for just the set fee listed. (Title link will take you to PayPal - you'll receive the script within 24hrs of payment being received.)

. Rain Soaked Rainbows  £2.00
Cast: 4 
Themes: Queer Comedy, LGBTQIA+, Observational Life Humour
Run Time: 15mins (1-Act Play)

WRITING PRIZES:

 2024: Winner MANSIL Writing Competition:

Winning Entry: Goldless Kintsugi
Click here to read full book of all entries

2014: Winner Breckland Poetry Prize

2012: Winner Hostry Festival Creative Writing Prize

PUBLISHED WRITING:

Business Blog - The Productive Pessimist

Raglan's Streets - LGBTQ+ cosy crime seaside setting novel series:
Book 1: Raglan's Streets
Book 2: Noah's Beasts
Book 3: Woman's Will
Book 4: Inconvenient Crossfires
Book 6: Awkward Ambitions
Book 7: City Stripes
Book 8: Secrets Kept 
Book 9: Truths Revealed

Also Domestics - Recipes from Raglan's Streets

These books self-published via Amazon KDP as
Ashley Ford-McAllister


Happiful Magazine, September 2019 - Click here to read the article
Published as Ashley Ford-McAllister

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

Flowers Backstage - an explicitly trans, working class re-telling of Radclyffe Hall's Well of Loneliness, where the women hold their own - not just the hand of the "great masculine genius".  Set in Scotland, between Glasgow's Buchanan Street and the towerblocks of Easterhouse, Flowers Backstage contrasts smooth, successful millionaire entrepreneur Steven Golden with the gritty reality of life in Glasgow's Easterhouse for Seamus, his wife Babs, and their friend and lodger, Wanda.  All four are trans, all four have ambition - but what happens when their very different lives intersect?

MAN(AGE) UP! (non-fiction, business, sociology, gender) - an exploration of what non-toxic masculinity is, and why leadership needs an effective, responsible, and assertive form of it if business, government, and society are to survive and thrive in ways which allow everyone to achieve their best self. 



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