Fiona Leonard

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Fiona is a professional storyteller (which is just a polite way of saying she makes things up for a living). A published author, blogger, playwright and director she has a passion for unearthing the stories behind the stories. | About — Fiona Leonard About About Photo: Nyani Quarmyne On my first day in primary school, so the story goes, I refused to leave the reading corner to participate in a class activity because I had been told that school was where you learned to read and I expected to be taught to read. Turns out school doesn’t work that way. This was my first indication that the pursuit of words may in fact be a subversive activity. Since then, I have maintained a healthy scepticism towards people who tell you what, when and how you should read and write. Nowadays, I write (and read) all manner of things. My first novel was self published in 2009 (back in the Wild West days of self publishing!). I self publis

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