The next featured story in the Memoir section of our 2022 Creative Writing Showcase is another moving extract from Tina Wagner Mattern's forthcoming memoir.

You can read Tina's latest contribution THE MIRACLE here.

Following on from the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, it is a pleasure to feature this contribution from Susan Mellsopp in the Memoir section of our 2022 Creative Writing Showcase.

You can read Susan's story, The Day I Met a Future King here.

Susan Mellsopp is happily retired and lives in Hamilton New Zealand with her cream and gold Labrador guide dog Maya. She also has her retired guide dog, a golden retriever named Jay. Much of her life has been spent as a dairy farmer, and also working as a librarian, archivist and accessible transport researcher. She runs a writers group and is constantly being challenged to write in genres other than travel and memoir. Susan has published two school histories, written for an alumni magazine, and writes for a national magazine which is published monthly. She is a voracious reader; usually having two talking books and a kindle book on the go at once, loves to travel, listen to classical music, cook, spend time with friends and use modern technology.