East Midlands
Directory of Writers and Storytellers
Writers' Information Pack
Foreword
Literature Development Officers

EAST MIDLANDS ARTS
DIRECTORY OF WRITERS AND STORYTELLERS

Contents
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Non-fiction, Novels, Poetry
Wide experience in writing and helping others to write community books and personal biography. Works with artists from other disciplines such as modern dancers, Indian dancers, photographers and musicians using writing to produce multi-art forms which draw from different cultural traditions. Novel 'The White Room' was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award in 1997.

Publications
'The White Room' (Novel, 1996, Springboard); 'The Merging of Rivers' (non-fiction, 1997, Pontefract Press); 'New for Old' The Story of the First Housing Action Trust' (1998, North Hull Housing Action Trust).

Performance Work
'Dance and Words', poetry performance with dance theatre at Grimsby Literature Festival; 'The Bullies', poetry performance with dance theatre for Channel 7 TV, 1999; 'Flying' and 'Loving Auntie Mary', short stories performed at Doncaster Arts Centre.

Availability
Daytime, evenings and weekends.

Berenice Moore

0116 262 4030

Poet
Leicester poet, ex-primary teacher. Has always lived and worked in or around city and county. Began writing seriously when a mature student at Leicester College of Education. Has written short stories but works mainly as a poet.

Publications
Poems widely published in magazines, including Acumen, Envoi, Poetry Nottingham International, Outposts, Staple, etc. and included in various anthologies, also Letts educational publications. Two collections, 'The Way We Live' (Outposts Publication) and 'Eating Peaches' (Coalville Publishing Co. Ltd., 1993).

Performance Work
Has run workshops for schools, adult education, university, writers' groups etc. Reads at Festivals, various group meetings, anywhere from church to a tithe barn. Particularly interested in work with disabled groups.

Availability
Available most times for readings, day schools, workshops, adjudications. Also works with Emma Gleadall, as EM-BER, poetic duo, two women, two poets, two points of view.

Michaela Morgan

01572 823458 or 01273 779272
Email: coolclive@aol.com

Children's Writer
Contributed to many school book weeks, INSET, courses and conferences. Been shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year, been an International Reading Association Children's Choice and won United Kingdom Reading Association award for non fiction. Works with children (infants and junior) and adults.

Publications
Publications include: Picture Books: 'Catnapped', 'Tiger', 'Pudding', 'Snowflake' (Longman Book Project); 'Alice is an Astronaut', 'Use Your Hanky Hannah', 'Pack it up Ben' (Collins Pathways);, 'Dexter's Dinosaurs' (Oxford University Press). Junior Fiction: 'The Not so Famous Four', 'The Only Child in Hamelin Town' (Longman Book Project); 'Pickles Sniffs it Out', 'Invasion of the Dinner Ladies', 'Sick as a Parrot' (Harper Collins/A & C Black Jet series); 'Cool Clive', 'Clive Keeps His Cool', 'Cool Clive and the Little Pest', 'Robbie Woods and His Merry Men', 'Spooky', 'Shelley Holmes Ace Detective' and others (Oxford University Press); 'Loyalty and Royalty', 'Tales From Wales' (Collins Pathways). Non-fiction: 'The Introductory Encyclopedia of British Wild Animals' (Longman Book Project'; 'Monster Mysteries' (Ginn); 'Performing Puppets' (Collins Pathways); 'Harraps Junior' (EFL series). Poetry: Contributed to many anthologies including 'Magic Poems' , 'Monster Poems', 'Crack a Yolk' (Oxford University Press); 'Nothing Tastes Quite Like a Gerbil'; 'The First Snows of Winter'-the Book of the Cartoon film for B.B.C. Big Book Phonics (Ginn).

Availability
Available for talks, readings, poetry or story workshops anywhere if given sufficient notice. Will work with infants, juniors or adults.

Chester Morrison

72 Rutland Street
Leicester
0116 265 6338

Playwright, Poet, Short Stories, Storyteller
As a trained teacher is able to organise and undertake workshops in the area below. Has been writing and performing for more than ten years. Plays the drums and incorporates Afrikan and Caribbean rhythms in his work. Also able to do workshops in various rhythms.

Performance Work
Has read in poetry slams, story telling on radio, through Island Voices performed in numerous venues in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago. Has performed at Phoenix Arts, Centennial Centre, Imani Ujima, Brockwell Park, Youth Centres, schools and community centres.

Availability
Depends on notice, but most times can be negotiated.

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