List Of Writers

WILLIAMS, GEE

Email: g.williams@exeter.oxon.org
Website: www.geewilliams.blogspot.com

Poet, short storyist, novelist, scriptwriter, editor, radio broadcaster. Born in North Wales. Degree in English and Education, Culham College, Oxford. Former lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature, now full–time writer. Poetry Society/ Poetry Review New Poet, summer ’97; Poet in Residence, Flintshire County, 1998. Numerous magazine and anthology pieces. Numerous prose scripts for Radio Wales and Radio 4 and two full–length plays. Shortlisted for the Richard Imerson Award and Commission for Racial Equality Race in the Media awards. Rhys Davies Award, 1996. The Book Pl@ce Contemporary Short Story Award 2003. Gee’s recent works include Salvage (Alcemi, 2007); a literary thriller and Blood, etc (Parthian, 2008); a piece of short fiction about violence and kinship. Salvage (Alcemi, 2007) was short-listed for the James Tait Memorial Prize for fiction. It is one of only five on the shortlist for the prize of £10,000, which will be awarded during the Edinburgh Festival week late in August 2008.

Reviews:
With respect to Magic and Other Deceptions (Gwasg Gee, 2001):

"…Meaning to do no more than skim, I found myself still there an hour later, guzzling the stories one by one like sweets in childhood…"
Stevie Davies, New Welsh Review


Selected Publications:
Magic and Other Deceptions (Gwasg Gee, 2001)
Death On Stanley Street (Word Weavers, 2001)
Salvage (Alcemi, 2007)          
Blood, etc (Parthian, 2008)

Contributed to:
Tilting at Windmills (contributor) (Parthian, 1995)
Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe (contributor) (Parthian, 1999)
Mirror, Mirror (editor) (Honno, 2003)
A Dang’rous Thing (editor) (Word Weavers, 2003)



Magic and Other Deceptions (Gwasg Gee, 2001)

16 short stories most of which were broadcast by Radio 4 or Radio Wales. They are set in a stretched, leanish strip of land running along one bank of the Dee…from…boat-building, cattle-rendering Saltney, through spit-on-your hands Shotton to chemical Flint and on to the peeling painted tarts of Talacre and Prestatyn.

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Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own poetry, short stories and drama
2. Writing for Radio
3. Dramatic reading of "Magic" - the most shocking Christmas Story ever
4. Workshops for writers aiming for publication

AGE RANGE: Adult