List Of Writers

BRIGHTMORE, GILLIAN

36 Three Arches Avenue, Llanisien, Cardiff, CF14 0NW
Tel: (029) 2076 2267
Email: gillbrightmore@tiscali.co.uk

Short–story writer and performance poet.  Based in Cardiff.  She has worked as a creative writing /literature tutor with the Open College of the Arts and the Open University and currently teaches with the Centre of Lifelong Learning at Cardiff University. Her special interest is in twentieth-century women’s fiction, particularly the work of Jean Rhys and Angela Carter, as well as contemporary American poetry. Has contributed both poetry and prose to a variety of small press magazines and anthologies. She was awarded a John Downes Award while writing her first novel and is currently working on a collection of short stories centred around Cardiff with the support of a Writer’s Bursary from the Arts Council of Wales. Has written plays and is also working at finishing a film script set in south east Wales. Has a strong interest in women’s performance.

Selected Publications:
Too Much Midnight (Stone Lantern Press)

Contributed to:
Exchanges (contributor) (Honno, 1990)
The Woman Who Loved Cucumbers (contributor) (Honno, 2002)
Mirror Mirror (contributor) (Honno, 2004)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own work, as well as illuminating the life and work of other writers
2. Critical discussion of the work of Jean Rhys

AGE RANGE: Adult, sixth form and women’s groups.