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Helen Salsbury

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Helen Salsbury is the co-editor of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities and one of its 54 contributors. She’s a trained community journalist and the founder of the environmental writing platform Pens of the Earth.

Helen Salsbury’s debut novel, Sometimes When I Sleep, was published in October 2021.
Her fiction has been shortlisted and longlisted for a number of prizes, including the Mslexia novel competition, and published in anthologies.

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