EARLIER this year, the Observer reported that Anne-Ruth Alton's story 'A Funny Mind' had been accepted by Honno, the Welsh Women's Press, to appear in their anthology 'Mirror, Mirror' (working title 'The Other Woman') around September, with the support of the Welsh Arts Council.
Anne-Ruth has had further good news in that another story of hers, which is autobiographical, will appear in Honno's anthology 'Laughing not Laughing' (working title 'My experience of Sex') in March 2004. Again, Anne-Ruth is being paid for her work.
Her story is about her childhood experience of sexual abuse by a man who married into her family and the subsequent, devastating effect it had on her. Her story is titled 'The Summer of Love' and is set in a hospital in 1967, which Observer readers may recall was the year of Flower Power and the Summer of Love in San Francisco.
Anne-Ruth comments that her long years of writing seem finally to be paying off as she has also been offered a part-time job as a correspondence course Creative Writing tutor with the Open College of the Arts who are affiliated to the Open University and the University of Glamorgan.
Anne-Ruth lives in Tenby and Honno are Aberystwyth-based.