Chip Tolson

ALLi Author Member

Chip Tolson came to writing fiction late in life, many years after schooling, national service in the army and thirty-five years in the shipowning industry, working in Liverpool, the Far East and Edinburgh.
Redirecting his energies he gained a degree in Creative Writing at Middlesex University and is a member of Writing Groups in Somerset.
Chip and Clare live on Exmoor in a one-time farmhouse looking after twelve hilly acres of woodland and rough grazing.
Chip has twice won the annual Yeovil Literary Prize Short Story Competition and won the 2014/2015 Somerset Film Scriptwriting Competition.
Chip has published two books in 2015: "The Battle of Slotterham Hall, AD 1929", a fable in which the pheasants decide to confront the shoot, and "Requiem for Private Hughes", a novel in which art student Archie Middlebrook on national service in the Malayan Emergency is wounded in an ambush that kills his friend, Geraint Hughes. Over the years that follow Archie strives to come to terms with the trauma of his youth.