firstwriter.com Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The members of our editorial team all have extensive editorial experience, and will be happy to apply this to the polishing of your manuscript.

J. Paul Dyson, Editor

Paul is an English graduate of the University of Cambridge. He currently edits firstwriter.com, firstwriter.magazine, Sweet & Maxwell's British Company Law Library, German Tax and Business Law Guide, and Administrative Court Digest. He also has editorial experience at Lateral Moves magazine, and has completed independent training courses for both professional proofreading and copy-editing. Due to time constraints Paul currently deals with short fiction only.

Nick J. Britton, Poetry Editor

Nick is also an English graduate of the University of Cambridge. He is currently poetry editor for firstwriter.magazine and is also the former Managing Editor of That's Shanghai – an English-language magazine based in China. Nick also has editorial experience at Lateral Moves magazine, and deals with all poetry submissions.

Sherry Wilson, Freelance Editor

As a fellow writer, Sherry Wilson brings to her edits and critiques an understanding of a writer's needs. She knows that a writer wants an objective review of the work – one that will improve the writing, not destroy the confidence.

Sherry has a special fondness for children's literature. She recently won a scholarship to an Advanced Book Writing and Marketing course at the Institute of Children's Literature for her short story, "Ghost Dare". She is a graduate of The Institute of Children's Literature and a member of SCBWI. She has edited and critiqued a wide variety of both fiction and non-fiction over the past two years.

Teri Larcade, Freelance Editor

Born of Oklahoma parents, Teri is about one-eighth Native American as well as English, Scottish, Irish, French, and Dutch - in short, run-of-the-mill American. She grew up in Southwest Louisiana, the Texas Gulf Coast, and lived in Medellin, Colombia where her father was a crop duster. Her mother is a dazzling self-made success, her father an Army officer, Korean War veteran, and an architect who opted to fly helicopters for a living instead of designing bridges. Teri attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana in the late 1960's where she studied English and History. She has worked for two small publishers as associate editor, copy-editor and proofreader. She has five children and is (under her pseudonym) the author of nine published novels.