Debbi Voisey
Debbi Voisey is the author of Only About Love, a Fairlight Moderns novella published on 5 August 2021.
Debbi writes flash fiction, short stories and novels. Her writing has been published in several places online and in print including including Flash Fiction
Festival Anthologies, Ellipsis, Litro, Storgy and Visual Verse. She has been longlisted and shortlisted in several competitions, including Bath Short Story Award, Flash 500, and Reflex Fiction.
A short Q&A with Debbi Voisey can be read below:
How did you start writing and what does writing mean to you?
I’ve always loved writing since I was very young, but the flame was really lit in me when I forgot my English homework once at school when I was about 12. My “punishment” was to write about punishment, so I wrote a 12-page story about a young boy in a young offender’s prison. Usually, the teacher ripped up the essays in front of you without even reading them, but he put it in his briefcase, and I like to think he read and enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. After that, my next project was writing a fan fiction based on Charlie’s Angels, but we will gloss over that!
Writing is a way of making sense of things for me, and dealing with feelings that would otherwise be repressed, so I suppose it is a form of therapy you don’t have to pay for.
Did you always want to be a writer?
I think once I discovered I enjoyed it, and discovered the writers I enjoyed to read, then it became my ambition.
What’s your favourite book and who is your favourite author?
Hard to pick a favourite because I like to flow and adapt and am open all the time to finding a new favourite book. My tastes are eclectic and I like to be surprised. The writer who made me realise I really want to make a go of it, is Stephen King. His characters are always so well drawn and I aspire to creating characters as memorable as his.
Only About Love is her first published novella. Read our full interview with her about it here.
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