Helen Whitten

Helen Whitten is a writer and prize-winning poet. She is winner of the Elmbridge Literary Festival Adult Poetry Prize 2021 and 2014 and the Winchester Writers’ Festival 2013 Poetry Prize. Her poem Fantasy Life was Highly Commended in the Elmbridge Literary Festival 2016 and her poem Moonfleet was Highly Commended in the Winchester Writers’ Festival 2014. Her first collection of poetry, The Alchemist’s Box was published by Morgan’s Eye Press in 2015. Helen has had her work published in a broad range of journals and anthologies, including Orbis, Acumen, Loose Muse, South Bank Poetry, Poetry in the Afternoon, and the Winchester Writers’ Festival Almanac.

No Lemons in Moscow is her first novel, published September 2023, inspired by visits to Russia in 1990 and 2016.

During her career running Positiveworks over twenty-five years, she worked as a Cognitive-Behavioural and business coach which took her to work with groups all over the world and she wrote six non-fiction books on the subject of personal and professional development. She also had many articles on related topics published in professional journals.

She writes regular blogs on social and topical subjects on her Thinking Aloud blog site www.helenwhitten.com

Visit: her poetry website www.babyboomerpoetry.com

YouTube poetry channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrbiJoaAqrKyO0k2QRbjog/