Born
in Ceylon
(Sri Lanka) Migel Jayasinghe has lived and worked on three
continents, Asia (Sri Lanka), Africa (Zambia), and Europe (UK). From
November 2005, he and his wife had been living in Costa Blanca,
Spain, as retirees but returned to UK in August 2020 after Brexit. As
an Occupational Psychologist with the Royal British Legion
Industries, UK, he established a vocational assessment and
rehabilitation facility, helping ex-services disabled men and women
back into appropriate further education, re-training and civilian
employment (1996 – 2001). Migel has also received training in
hypnotherapy and life- coaching.
Migel
was awarded the ‘Poetry Writer of the Year 2010’ trophy
by the Costa Blanca based WordPlay Writers’ Forum of which he
had been a member since its inception. Migel received an ‘Honorable
Mention’ for his poem ‘Today in the News’ in the
2011 International Poetry Competition run by the Lucidity Poetry
Journal (USA). He won Second Prize ($25.00) for ‘Jazz Band’
in the US Moontown Café Poetry competition (2014). Website:
www.moontowncafe.com
. His
contribution in the academic field, Counselling
in Careers Guidance
(2001) was published by the Open University Press (UK), and
translated into Japanese in 2004. He self-published through Outskirts
Press Inc., A
Miscellany; Essays, stories poems and a play (2008).His
self-published
works of poetry are: One
Year in Spain (2011)
CreateSpace, and Solace
in Verse (2013)
Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency, USA. He contributed
articles and short stories to Confluence;
South
Asian
Perspectives, a
journal published in London. The
CoastRider (now
Costa Blanca People), Euro Weekly News, and
Round Town News (no
longer published), all local freebie weeklies, occasionally published
his short articles and poems. He also had a short story Parking
Ticket published
in
the Costa
Blanca News,
a regular weekly newspaper. His
latest self-published work is
‘A Literary Smorgasbord, memoir, fiction, and poetry’
(2019) printedby
Xlibris.
