Anne Brooke’s fiction has been shortlisted for the Harry Bowling Novel Award, the Royal Literary Fund Awards and the Asham Award for Women Writers. She has also twice been the winner of the national DSJT Charitable Trust Open Poetry Competition.
She is the author of nine novels, and three books of poetry. In addition, her gay and literary short stories are regularly published by Amber Allure Press, Wilde City Press and Untreed Reads. All her gay fiction can be found at: www.gayreads.co.uk.
Anne has a secret passion for theatre and chocolate, preferably at the same time, and is currently working on a fantasy novella, The Taming of the Hawk. More information can be found at www.annebrooke.com and she regularly blogs at: http: //annebrooke.blogspot.co.uk.
The crunch under my boot,
remnants of a faraway summer
golden, brown and crimson
already disappearing
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