ALAN
McDONALD: biography
prose I published two novels in the 80's about a woman private eye, set in Liverpool, which were republished in one volume as Unofficial Rosie (Warner Books, 1994). Also published: The Weller Way (Faber & Faber, 1986) the award-winning story of a Liverpool housing cooperative. I'm writing novels now. Poetry published in small magazines and a pamphlet by Mersey Books. teaching I teach on the MA in scriptwriting at the University of Salford. I've taught writing part-time for night classes and day schools for 15 years. |
computing I write online Help and html tutorials for FunderFinder. I am co-writer of a number of publications relating to social housing and i.t.; our current 'publication' is a web-site. Oh, and I do creative work on the Internet - previous residencies at artiMedia (1995) and Bath Festival (2000) |
drama Over a dozen radio plays broadcast by BBC Radio, including two series of Unofficial Rosie, E-love (1998), a play about an e-mail love affair, and The poetry disease (forthcoming, in 2001) I wrote for u.k. soap operas Brookside for three years in the 1980's and EastEnders for two episodes in 1995 and for a few other tv series in between. My theatre play Heads held high toured England with the replay of the Jarrow march in 1986. Currently I have a small grant from Yorkshire Playwrights to work on a theatre version of E-love called The blindfold café. |
writer-in-residence March-September 2000