Welcome to my website. 
I’m Clare Stevens, an author and creative writing tutor based in Nottingham, England. 

Head and shoulders shot of author Clare Stevens, with blonde bob, glasses, fake fur trimmed leather jacket and white spotted top, shrubbery in background.

If you’re a writer looking for tips, you’ll find writing advice and exercises on my blog. If it’s a creative writing tutor you need, find out how I can help you and the sessions I run on my workshops page.

Read more about me or go to my books page for info on my novels.

If you have any queries or a writing project you’d like to discuss, please get in touch!

Latest release: Heartsound

Cover of Heartsound by Clare Stevens

Sixteen-year-old Chrissie’s first love is a girl

But it’s the eighties, and she fears rejection from her rural community, so her relationship remains secret.

Decades later, her long-lost love resurfaces, but all is not as it seems. 

It takes a global pandemic and a brush with death to spark the resolution Chrissie craves. 

Heartsound is a tale of unspoken truths, broken promises, almost-forgotten dreams, and hope. 

 

 

"A warm and thoroughly engaging read. Tracking Chrissie from intense adolescence to middle age, Stevens celebrates the extraordinariness of supposedly ordinary lives and the enduring nature of love."