List Of Writers
MEDLICOTT, MARY
9 Winterwell Road, London SW2 5JB
Tel: (020 7274 6667) Fax: (020 7207 1027)
Storyteller and writer, Mary grew up in Fishguard and St David’s. She completed a year on VSO in Kenya and read English at Girton College Cambridge. From 1969, Mary worked as a researcher and journalist until the early 1980s when she developed as an oral storyteller, working with adults and children in performance, workshop and educational situations. Mary now also lectures and writes on storytelling and the oral tradition. In 1990, she devised a Channel 4 TV series, By Word of Mouth: The Revival of Storytelling. Mary has published various collections of stories for children. She is a former chair of the Society of Storytelling and now edits the society’s publications.
Selected Publications:
Tales for Telling: From Around the World (Kingfisher, 1992)
The Big–Wide–Mouthed Toad-Frog (Kingfisher, 1996)
The King with Dirty Feet (Kingfisher, 1996)
Wild Children (Richard Cohen, 1998)
The Little Book of Storytelling: Little Books with Big Ideas (Little Books) (Featherstone Education, 2003)
Cooking Up a Story: Recipes for Storytime with Young Children (Early Years Library) (Featherstone Education, 2004)
Open Secret (Pont, 2004)
Elephant Luck (Pont, 2006)
Shemi’s Tall Tales (Pont, 2008)
Contributed to:
Time for Telling (editor) (Kingfisher, 1991)
The River that Went Into the Sky (editor) (Kingfisher, 1995)
Tales from Africa (editor) (Kingfisher, 2000)
Talking Up a Story (co-writer) (Featherstone Education Ltd, 2007)
Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Storytelling performance and discussion
2. Workshops
3. One-Woman shows inc. Travels with My Welsh Aunt
4. Storytelling training
5. lectures on storytelling and oral tradition
Relevant experience; Residencies at Tasker Milward Comprehensive, Haverfordwest; Ysgol Dewi Sant, St David’s; Lampeter Comprehensive School. sessions with drama students at University of Glamorgan. seminars at NATE (Wales), 2000.
AGE RANGE: 1. all ages, 2. all ages, 3.adults and children over 10, 4. & 5. adults
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
None, but likes to discuss arrangements and settings beforehand.