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Linda Kempton

01332 345113
Email: linda.kempton@virgin.net

Children's Writer
Linda Kempton is an experienced workshop leader and writing tutor. She has just finished a seven year stint teaching writing to both graduates and undergraduates at the University of Derby, and has worked as an Arts Council Writer in Residence at a men's high security prison in Leicestershire. Her most recent adventure was in Jamaica where she spent a month on an East Midlands Arts Writer's Exchange. She has been nominated and shortlisted for several major writing awards. She writes mainly for children but has published adult work too.

Publications
'God gives Nuts to those who have no Teeth' (Heinemann, 1989); 'The Naming of William Rutherford' (Heinemann, 1992; Mammoth, 1994); 'Who'll Catch the Nightmares' (Mammoth, 1996); 'Tiny the Terrier' (Mammoth Read, Feb 1999); 'Pet Hotel Detectives' (as Jessie Holbrow, BBC, 1998); 'The Doll's House Man' (John Hunt, 1999); 'The Tale of Jessica Sweetapple' ( Mammoth, 2000).

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