List Of Writers
CLOUGH, LARA
Tel: 01547 560257
Email: laraclough@btconnect.com
Lara Clough has lived in the Mid Wales Borders area for the last 17 years with her family. With encouragement from going on Ty Newydd writing courses, 2000–2004, she won an Academi Bursary award to complete her first novel Facing into the West Wind in 2004. This was published by Honno in October 2006, and was selected as Waterstones’ Wales Book of the Month for October 2006. Lara is currently working towards an MA in Creative and Media Writing at Swansea University. She has completed a Reaching for Words training scheme that aims to teach writers to use creative writing in a Healthcare setting. She has experience and an interest in working with the elderly, especially people with dementia using reminiscence and poetry. Locally she has had success running prose and poetry workshops. She is currently working on her second novel. Lara is a Member of Academi.
Reviews:
“…Facing into the West Wind was haunting, powerful and well crafted…the atmosphere stayed with me for a long time afterwards…”
Dr. Fflur Dafydd, Swansea University
“…a tender and perceptive tale of secrets…”
Rachel Hore, Guardian
“…a deeply felt and accomplished first novel…”
Sue Gee
Selected Publications:
Facing into the West Wind (Honno, 2006)
Contributed to:
Safe World Gone (contributor) (Honno, 2007)
Facing into the West Wind (Honno, 2006)
A debut novel with an ethereal, deeply felt focus on characters and relationships. When Haz meets the rejected and lonely Jason on the streets of Bristol he decides to take him home to the family’s beach house at Gower. What follows is a series of confessions and revelations which will change everything.
To purchase this title from gwales.com, please click on the front cover.
Eligible writers on tour subjects offered:
1. Reading/ discussing her own work
2. Creative writing/ poetry workshops
3. Reminiscing/ creative writing workshops with the elderly and those suffering dementia
AGE RANGE: Older secondary school, adults