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Anthony Mcgowan Featured
Anthony Mcgowan was born in Manchester and was the second of what were to be five children. He now resides in London with his wife, author and fashion designer Rebecca Campbell, and their two young children. Here he talks to Noga Applebaum about writing for teenagers and children. ...
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Polly Dunbar Featured
Polly Dunbar was born in Stratford upon Avon. Daughter of children's author Joyce Dunbar, Polly first started illustrating when she was 16 and has a degree in Illustration at the University of Brighton. She lives in Brighton, Sussex. She met Nikki Gamble at the UKLA international conference in Liverpool and talked about the importance of colour ...
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David Lucas Featured Popular
David Lucas was born in Middlesborough, in the north of England. He grew up in Hackney, in East London, and studied illustration at the Royal College of Art. He lives and works in central London. Here he talks to Write Away about life, art and illustrating children’s picturebooks. Download ...
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Paul Kieve Featured
Paul Kieve is a professional illusionist whose consulting work for both stage and screen has contributed to changing how magical special effects in productions are approached. His work for the stage production of "The Invisible Man" holds the world record for the most effects in one show. His current projects include the Harry Potter film series and Phantom of the Ope ...
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Alan MacDonald
After studying English and Drama, Alan MacDonald started working life in a travelling theatre company, visiting schools all over the country and writing much of their material. He says it was a useful apprenticeship — if the audience didn’t like the play, they talked through it or threw bits of paper at the actors. He very quickly learned what children liked. In add ...
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Rupert Kingfisher
Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles, published by is Rupert Kingfisher’s first book. His favourite authors as a child were Roald Dahl, Susan Cooper and Ursula le Guin. He also loved American horror comics and French cartoon books such as Asterix and Tintin. It was on a family holiday to Paris that he visited a bookshop dedicated to books such a ...
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Catherine Rayner
Award winning author and illustrator Catherine Rayner studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of art. She fell in love with the city and still lives there with a small menagerie of creatures: Shannon the horse, Ena the grey cat, goldfish Sheila and a speckly black and tan guinea pig called Marvin. In 2008, Catherine was selected as one of the ten best new illus ...
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Sarah Mussi
English writer Sarah Mussi lived in Ghana for many years and is married to a Ghanaian. She currently lives in England and teaches in south-east London. Her debut novel, The Door of No Return, won the Glen Dinplex Award in 2007. Madelyn Travis met up with Sarah to talk about the historical and cultrual background to her novels The Door of No Return and Return of the Warr ...
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Celia Rees
Celia Rees was born in 1949 and grew up in Solihull, England. She took a degree in History and Politics at the University of Warwick and worked as a secondary school History and English teacher for seventeen years, during which time she also became a writer. Celia gives talks on her writing and teaches Creative Writing on the University of Warwick Open Studies Programme. She l ...
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