Bec Tonks worked as a designer for many years, travelling the world with her career after graduating in fashion in 2004. Following the arrival of her three children she became increasingly drawn back to her love of stories and decided to embrace a career sidestep into writing and illustrating.

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In 2024, the Arts Council England awarded her grant funding which became a pivotal point in developing her creative practice for my older children’s work, Young Adult’s and expanding into Adult’s fiction.

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Based in Staffordshire, she embraces both traditional and digital forms of creativity, experimenting with liquid charcoal, water-based paints then expands, pushing her artwork boundaries further using Procreate.

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Her writing often begins the same way with a pencil to paper before being tapped into her laptop. She has far too many scribbled notebooks and would confess to drinking too many cups of tea while falling down the rabbit hole that is her current story project.

 

She is also…

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• Member of Write Mentor

• Curtis Brown Creative Alumni

• Walsall Writers’ Circle,1st Prize Fiction Winner 2020/ 2024/ 2025.

• Writers Hub Participant, Wolverhampton Literature Festivals 2020-2026

• Lead Creative at Walsall Festival of Words

• Elected Artist at The New Art Gallery, Walsall

• Creative for Black Country division of The National Literacy Trust 2024

• Published Twice  in the SCBWI magazine