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Robert’s<\/strong> short stories, non-fiction articles, book reviews, and letters<\/strong> have been published in several magazines and journals including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The People’s Friend, Pulse,<\/strong> Funeral Director Monthly<\/strong><\/em>, Scunthorpe Telegraph<\/em><\/strong>, GP Magazine, BMA News, The Telegraph<\/em><\/strong>, Writers Forum, MQ Magazine<\/em><\/strong>, Freemasonry Today<\/em><\/strong>, InnovAiT,   <\/em><\/strong> The Journal<\/em><\/strong>, The Journal of the British Institute of Funeral Directors, BMJ, The Telegraph, Pissouri Contact, Way of Life, Popescu Book Club<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong><\/em> <\/em><\/strong>Grimsby Telegraph, The International Journal of Practical Theology<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newspaper Columnist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2010-2016, Robert wrote a weekly column for two regional newspapers in the north of England: the Scunthorpe Telegraph<\/em><\/strong> and the Grimsby Telegraph<\/em><\/strong>. The columns entwined a health-centred message with interesting and often amusing insights into the world of literature, poetry, philosophy and every-day anecdotes. The newspaper columns were frequently reproduced in Robert’s blog, Musings of a Literary Doctor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2012-2016, Robert wrote a monthly column, based on anecdotes from his life as a rural GP, for The Journal<\/em><\/strong>, a society magazine for Northern Lincolnshire. In 2014, Robert was appointed as one of the restaurant and hotel reviewers for The Journal.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other Writing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert’s short story, Best of Breed, won the Lincoln Book Festival Prize for Fiction<\/strong><\/em> in 2005. His poem, My Neighbour’s Lawn, won the Fathom Prize for Poetry<\/strong> <\/em>in 2010. Between 2008 – 2009, Robert regularly wrote travel articles for an American travel website Be A Brit Different<\/strong><\/em>. In 2002, he contributed to an American film script, Chasing Rainbows<\/strong>, <\/em>by Denis Lewiston<\/a>. For several years, Robert wrote pharmaceutical information leaflets and clinical briefing documents for the health information company, Patient Connect<\/strong><\/a>. Apart from his first collection of poetry, Robert’s poems have been published in various newspapers and magazines, on the internet, and in two anthologies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fathom 10<\/em><\/a>  <\/em>published 2010, ISBN 978-0-9555950-5- (Featured poem: My Neighbour\u2019s Lawn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Love?<\/strong> <\/em>published 2011, ISBN 978-0-85781-103-5 (Featured poem: An Intermezzo for Love).<\/p>\n\n\n\n