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Author Archives: Clare Spencer
A first novel from Heather Peace
Heather Peace’s first novel All to Play For is to be published on October 29th by Legend Press. Narrated from 2011 by a former BBC drama script editor, it begins at the Edinburgh Festival in 1985, and follows several young … Continue reading
Andrew Garvin contributes to a new play, ‘The Trackers’
Andrew Garvin has contributed to a performance of the satyric play by Sophocles – entitled The Trackers. He co-operated on the English version of the play, which is contained in the book and programme for this performance. The performance of the play was generated … Continue reading
Jackie Wills featured in world poets series
A215 associate lecturer Jackie Wills is featured in a world poets series put together by the celebrated poet and editor, Sudeep Sen. Jackie, based in Brighton, is working on her fifth collection of poetry. The World Poetry Portfolio, published on … Continue reading
Ida and Louise – a radio commission for Jane Purcell
I’ve just been commissioned to write a five part Woman’s Hour Drama based on the lives of Ida and Louise Cook. Both were avid opera lovers and during their travels to Europe in the 1930s became aware of the persecution … Continue reading
Tutor’s novel in progress shortlisted for international prize
A novel in progress by Lane Ashfeldt has been shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize 2011. There are six books on the shortlist and the winner is yet to be announced. Publication forms part of the prize for the … Continue reading
Triplet: Michael W. Thomas
My writing and publication record defines me principally as a fiction-writer and poet. In the last couple of years, however, I have become increasingly interested in writing drama. In the context of the OU, this may well have been through … Continue reading
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update from Chris Powici
May was a strange, busy and enjoyable month. The strange side has largely consisted of weird fluctuations between summer and something resembling winter. Big winds have toppled a lot of trees hereabouts which gives the landscape a sort of dishevelled … Continue reading
Writing in the sand
The Burning Path by Kevan Manwaring Three strangers meet in a nameless desert and must come to terms with their past before they can escape it: a First World War airman; an American aviatrix of the Thirties; and … Continue reading