 The Bahamas Writer, Fay Knowles, was born in Scotland, U.K. She now lives with her husband Erskine in sunny Nassau, Bahamas, where she writes feature stories, fiction and happy "look at life" articles.
Her passion for writing blossomed when she was nine years old. She trained as a reporter at the age of eighteen, when two former London Fleet Street reporters, John Abbot and Mike Borissow, started a news agency in Exeter, England.
Fay says: "The training was tough and I had to work hard, but it gave me great grounding as a writer."
After moving to Toronto, Canada, at the age of twenty, her position as Editorial Assistant for the "Canadian Food Journal" provided invaluable experience in the publishing industry.
Then in 1965, traveling down across the U.S. by Greyhound coach and from Miami to Nassau by Bahamas Airways, she filled in as a secretarial "Temp" for the late Sir Etienne Dupuch (Publisher/Editor of The Tribune newspaper 1919 – 1972). The Tribune later published her news and feature stories submitted from Freeport, Grand Bahama, where she and her family were living at the time.
Fay continually studied her craft throughout marriage, children and a variety of "day jobs" - taking novel writing and short story writing certificate courses by correspondence; listening to writers' workshops on cassette tapes; and reading every book and magazine on writing that she could get hold of!
She is a past member of the Exeter and District Writers' Club, Devon, England, and she founded the Bahamas Writers Group in January, 2003.
As well as getting by-lines in national and regional newspapers, Fay's articles have appeared in the "Kennel Gazette" (the journal of the British Kennel Club), "Christian Herald" and trade journals. And her writing assignments have included a Caribbean cruise with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.
Fay is currently adapting BahamasWriter.com into book form (click on her website link to be notified when this occurs). This will be a handy and easy to read writer's guide with a Bahamian theme. A mystery/suspense novel set in the Bahamas is also in the works.
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