I was simply carrying out my usual tutoring lesson yesterday when an email popped up my PC which sent me into an exciting spin! Not only did I become a finalist for the PAGETURNER AWARDS 2025, but I have now reached the shortlist. The email, inviting me to an online international awards ceremony told meContinue reading “An exciting achievement!”
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Second Neurodiversity Conference
ON 2nd June 2025, I was invited to be a guest speaker on the panel of the 2nd Neurodiversity Conference at HMP Warren Hill, a familiar venue. With an audience of inmates, staff and professionals 100 hundred strong, it was clearly a very important and necessary event. Neurodiversity is of a high percentage in theContinue reading “Second Neurodiversity Conference”
‘March’-ing on in March!
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog here, on my website. There are a number of reasons for this: firstly I wrote two other blogs/article on a monthly basis. You may be aware that I write a monthly post for the award-winning Felixstowe Magazine App in the form of a column called PENspiration.Continue reading “‘March’-ing on in March!”
Hello 2025!
Well, the year ended on a really high note! Just before Christmas, Dial Lane books in Ipswich were kind enough to host my book launch. The book, Burnt Lungs and Bitter Sweets, is a tale about four punk friends from 1976 to the present day. It’s a tragicomedy in the same sort of category asContinue reading “Hello 2025!”
Book launch is imminent!
Only a few days to the launch at DIAL LANE BOOKS on December 20th, so despite it being the final night of the Christmas show I am in, and despite being on stage in about 2 hours’time, I thought I had better update the website with a quick post. I have had the excitement ofContinue reading “Book launch is imminent!”
Virginia Betts 