‘From Essex to London in 101 Boyfriends’ was a blog I wrote in 2018 mainly for Facebook and my performing friends and fans. I posted two boyfriends a week, ending in January 2019 with ‘No. 101 The Husband’.
I went on an Arvon course and jigged the blog about. I applied and was shortlisted for the Arvon/Jerwood mentoring prize 2019. I went on to win a read of the now 57,000 word memoir with ‘The Literary Consultancy’ via Shape Arts.
(I am also writing a dystopian horror ‘Fertile’. In its second draft I was short-listed for Seminal Edits novel competition 2023.(
‘The Suicidal Therapist’ was signed with Karnac/Confer books but they went bust and new owners Phoenix weren’t taking on memoirs in the end so I signed with another publisher who went rogue when the director left. I am now delighted to be published with Survivors Voices Press.
Liz Bentley 