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/lyrics

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