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EAST MIDLANDS ARTS
DIRECTORY OF WRITERS AND STORYTELLERS

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Web: www.kdsi.net/~dmackey/watson.htm
Email: ianwatson@cix.co.uk

Horror Stories, Novelist, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy
Born 1943. Former lecturer in Literature. Since 1976 has written full-time and is author of 28 novels and 8 volumes of short stories. His novels have won awards in Britain, America, France and Spain. Worked for a year with Stanley Kubrick on the movie AI (Artificial Intelligence).

Publications
See: 'The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction' (Clute & Nicholls, 1993), 'Science Fiction, the Illustrated Encyclopedia' (Clute, 1995), 'The Encyclopedia of Fantasy' (Clute & Grant, 1997).

Performance Work
Many.

Availability
Any single day, within 80 miles or so from South Northants. Age 10 to Adult.

Patricia Wendorf

10 Blue Granite Park
The Green, Mountsorrel
Leicestershire LE12 7AG

Novelist
Interests: Culture of the Romany Gypsies. Local history of Somerset and Dorset.

Publications
'Peacefully in Berlin' (1983); 'Leo Days' (1984); 'Larksleeve' (1985). Larksleeve is the first of a trilogy followed by 'Blanche', 1986 and 'Bye Bye Blackbird', 1987. All books have been published in hardback and paperback and 'Leo Days' (available in Ulverscroft Large Print) serialised on BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour and in South Africa. There is also a talking book for the blind. 'Larksleeve' is also translated and published in Sweden; 'Blanche', published in Sweden in 1987; 'Bye Bye Blackbird' published in Sweden in 1988. 'Double Wedding Ring', published November 1989 and also published in America September 1990. 'Lives of Translation' published by Viking Penguin in August 1992. 'I Believe in Angels' (Penguin, 1994, hardback/paperback/talking book/large print); 'One Of Us Is Lying' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, hardback/paperback/large print); 'The Toll House' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1997, hardback/paperback/large print). Book at present in preparation. A sequel to 'The Toll House', 'The Marriage Menders'. Hodder and Stoughton 1999, Hardback/paperback/large print

Availability
At all times

Gregory Woods

Nottingham Trent University
Faculty of Humanities
Clifton Lane
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG11 8NS
Email: gregory.woods@ntu.ac.uk

Critic, Journalist, Poet
Born 1953, Cairo, Egypt and brought up in the Gold Coast/Ghana. Educated at Roman Catholic public school and at the University of East Anglia (BA, 1974; MA, 1975; PhD, 1983). Taught at University of Salerno, Italy, 1980-1984. Currently Professor of Lesbian and Gay Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

Publications
'Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry' (Yale University Press, 1987); 'We Have the Melon' (Carcanet, 1992); 'This is No Book: A Gay Reader' (Mushroom/Five Leaves, 1994); A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition' (Yale University Press, 1998); 'May I Say Nothing' (Carcanet, 1998).

Performance Work
Venues including Manchester Poetry Centre; University of York; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Voice Box, Royal Festival Hall, London; Stalls Foyer, Nottingham Playhouse; Sussex Motor Yacht Club; Gay's The Word Bookshop, London; Troubadour Cafe, London; Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy; Hotel Krone, Solothurn, Switzerland.

Availability
Negotiable (according to amount of notice given).

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