Trish Nicholson is an anthropologist, photographer and writer of creative non-fiction whose career spans thirty years as columnist, feature writer and author. She also writes short stories. Over the last two years she has won a couple of international short story competitions, been a finalist in several others, and had her stories published in anthologies and in the writing magazine Words With JAM. Trish has several recent ebooks available from main online retailers: two travelogues, Masks of the Moryons: Easter Week in Mogpog (set in the Philippines) was released in 2011, and Journey in Bhutan: Himalayan Trek in the Kingdom of the Thunderdragon in April 2012 , and a popular science ebook writing as an anthropologist, From Apes to Apps: How Humans Evolved as Storytellers and Why is Matters, released in  February 2013. Her works in progress are a travel memoir based on five years working in Papua New Guinea, and an historical anthropology of storytelling, Her two latest books are on writing craft: Inside Stories for Writers and Readers, and Writing Your Nonfiction Book: the complete guide to becoming an author. Both are available in print (from The Book Depository, and Fishpond as well as Amazon), and in digital form from most online retailers.. Trish is a guest blogger on creative writing themes for www.nzwriterscollege.co.nz and you can follow her on Twitter @trishanicholson. She posts weekly on her website - stories, travel tales, reviews, and photo-essays, at http://www.trishnicholsonswordsinthetreehouse.com

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