Archive for April, 2010
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Caroline Bird was a winner of the Foyles Young Poets of the Year Award in 1999 and 2000, and the Peterloo Poets Competition for Young Poets in 2002, 2003 and 2004. She was short-listed for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and won a major Eric Gregory Award in 2002. Her first collection, Looking Through [...]
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Clare Brown was born in Liverpool and brought up mostly in Sheffield. She read English Language and Literature at the University of Liverpool and then worked in theatre management in Leicester and London for seven years before becoming Director of the Poetry Book Society 1996-2003.
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Alan Buckley is the 2011-2012 Writer- in- Residence at Cheney School, Oxford
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Chambers studied film and literature in Poland and at New York University before returning to England in 1998. His first biography, The Last Englishman, won a Jerwood award from the Royal Society of Literature.
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Kate Clanchy taught for ten years in state schools before becoming a freelance writer.
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Helen Cross was born and brought up in East Yorkshire. Her first novel, My Summer of Love won a Betty Trask Award and became a BAFTA award-winning feature film.
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Laura Dockrill is a poet and illustrator from South London.
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Ben Faccini grew up in rural France, was educated in England, and has lived in Paris, London and Italy.
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Kevin Fegan was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. He works full-time as a playwright and poet.
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William Fiennes is the best-selling author of The Snow Geese which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize.
