Just read in the trusty W&A yearbook not to rehash my academic one, but keep it more biographical.
It's not proving easy to write at all and I certainly don't want to write 'Alice: The early years' and bore people. Any tips to keep it to one side of A4?

Gosh, mostly I'm asked for 100 words or less. This is for selling your writing work, yes? So don't they just want to know what you've done/where you are now? Am not sure an academic cv is much use if you're trying to sell fiction, though I guess it can show you've at least applied yourself to something in the past! It's never occurred to me that sending a cv is relevant to selling your book - a biographical para perhaps, but a whole cv? They're not employing you to work in the office after all, so why would it matter what you've done? (Obviously that doesn't apply if you're off the telly/married to someone off the telly. Then a biographical cv is quite possibly ALL you need ...)

As I'm not off the telly, and not (yet) married to someone off it - one paragraph of magic shouldn't be too difficult. Mind you I trawled the W&A Yrbk website yesterday, and picked on a few Agents pages for research purposes re: submissions... not exactly a industry standard is there? Everyone wants different things, gave me quite a headache. Still I'm not giving up. I entered the Waterstones short-story postcard competition last Summer, and my postcard didn't make the final rounds or indeed their book, but it did make the window of our local branch. That was a bit of a thrill and I am now determined to see my book published and in Waterstones. Tomorrow, it will be done. 100 words. Easy peasy. 100 choice words, not so easy...