These pages exist to explore and promote the work of Jamaican/British novelist and short story writer LEONE ROSS. Here you can  read her fiction, sign up for creative writing classes and for mentorship, check out her biographical details and generally wallow in Leone’s imagination...

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WHAT'S ON: Leone has two new publications due. The first, Love Silk Food, is a short story shortlisted for the V.S Pritchett Award in the UK, 2008. It will be published in the Black British edition of WASAFIRI magazine in September 2009. The second is a story she wrote in an hour, called When The River. It’s a piece of erotica and will be out March 2010, in Making The Hook Up, Cleis Press, editor Cole Riley. STOP PRESS (27/8/09): Leone has just finished the first draft of her third novel, The Inevitability of Stroooops. It is 202, 223 words long - nearly three times as long as Orange Laughter. It’s taken three years to finish, and she wrote the last 47,000 words this week. She will now put it down to ‘bake’  for two weeks and come back to do a final, month-long edit.

SITE NEWS : Apologies for the absence of promised Blog, which would have followed Leone as she finished Stroooops. Leone’s as-yet-diagnosed hand pain continues to be a challenge - but she promises that at some point she will at least write about the creative and semantic challenges of voice recognition software.

ALSO: Leone has a Facebook fan page. Do join by clicking the link!

**Please be aware that this website contains material of an explicit sexual nature**

**Here are some ways NOT to spell my name: Leonie Ross, Leoni Ross, Leoney Russ, Leonne Ross, Leon Rossi. This is just so that when people Google me but don't spell me right, they still manage to find this site.**