List Of Writers

PRICE, JAN

The Witches Cottage, 1 Aberaman Terrace, Aberaman, Aberdare CF44 6DS
Tel: (01685) 874774
Email: wcottage@tinyonline.co.uk

Performance poet. Born in Llantwit Major and educated both there and in Dusseldorf and Berlin, Germany. Jan was first published in 1980 and called "Wales’ wittiest woman writer" by Woman’s Realm magazine. She has read on BBC Wales and appeared on TV with Bernard Manning, Joe Brown, Henry Kelly and Sandra Dickinson. Jan reads to prisons, schools, hospitals, pubs, clubs and anyone who wants to listen, having performed in 176 venues to date. She has also read in Africa with folk duo `Mabsant`, with Mountain Ash rugby choir, Côr Meibion Abercynon, the Burma Star Choir and Caerphilly Choir. Jan runs a busy fancy dress shop and will read in costume.

Selected Publications:
Screwshot Suzie and Other Heroines
Morbid and Macabre Musings
Thoughts of a Welsh Girl
A Truly Famous Welshman: The Story of Guto Neath Bran
Betty from Bettws and the Great Secret
The Rise and Fall of the Welsh Male (Jan Price, 1994)
Old Lovers’ Ghosts and Other Poems
Welshmen and How to Survive Them
A Better Class of Doggerel (Peevish Bee)

Contributed to:
A Brecon Revealed by Huw Parsons (contributor) (Peevish Bee, 2008)

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Reading own poetry dressed in costume and wig
2. Poetry workshop
3. Talks on poetry and performance poetry