David Hadley
Biographical notes:
I am in my mid-40s, married with three children. I live in Cradley Heath, West Midlands. For several years now, I have been a house-husband whilst trying to find the time to write.
Before that, I was – briefly – a mature student at Hull University studying English and Philosophy, dropping out after one year.
For ten years before that, I worked at the Midlands Electricity Board, putting the bills in envelopes.
I have had poems published in Eclipse, Envoi, Poetry Nottingham International, Raw Edge and some accepted for publication in other magazines.
I have had several short stories Cherry-picked by the editors at abctales.com (http://www.abctales.com),
and one: Barn (http://www.abctales.com/abcplex/viewstory.cgi?s=37466) which was selected as Story of the Week in early July 2003.
I have recently completed a novel – entitled Hanging Around Until – set during the mid-1980s, where, at the age of 28, Paul Carr gives up his dull dead-end office job to become a mature student at a university on the North-East coast of England.