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FORTUNE–WOOD, JAN

Email: jan@cinnamonpress.com  
Website: www.janfortunewood.com  

Jan Fortune-Wood writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She is co-founder and editor of Cinnamon Press and lives in North Wales. Jan originally studied Theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge and completed a PhD in Feminist Theology. She also has an MA in Creative Writing. She has worked as a teacher, priest, charity director and   creative writing tutor. She is the author of several non-fiction books, chapters and articles on alternative education and parenting.

Her first novel, A Good Life, and first poetry collection, Particles of Life were published by Bluechrome in September 2005. Her second novel, Dear Ceridwen was published by Cinnamon Press in May 2007 and her first novel for teenagers is de out in November 2007. Jan is currently working on a novel in prose poetry form, Stale Bread and Miracles, to be published by Headland in 2008 and a new poetry collection Knot-work. She is a Member of Academi.


Selected Publications:

Educational:
Winning Parent, Winning Child: Parenting So Everybody Wins (Cinnamon Press, 2005)  
Doing It Their Way: Home-based Education and Autonomous Learning (Educational Heretics Press, 2008)

Poetry and Novels:
Particles of Life (Bluechrome, 2006)                          
A Good Life (Bluechrome, 2006)
Dear Ceridwen (Cinnamon Press, 2007)
The Standing Ground (Cinnamon Press, 2007)

Contributed to:
Perhaps (editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2005)                      
Sometimes (editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2006)                          
The Lie of the Land: An Anthology of Poetry from Wales and Welsh Poetry in English (editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2006)
A Clock-Storm Coming (editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2007)
Wherever (editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2007)
Shape Sifting (editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2007)
Only Connect (co-editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2007)
Mint Sauce and Other Stories and Poems (editor) (Cinnamon Press, 2008)
Eagle in the Maze: Rhys Davies Prize Short Story Anthology 2008 (editor) (Cinnamon, 2008)

Dear Ceridwen (Cinnamon Press, 2007)

In North Wales Bethan writes a letter to her missing daughter, Ceridwen. What is the truth about Stephen and the abuse that took place at the Soulful Living Community in Bristol? Most importantly, is Ceridwen alive and what has become of her?

As Bethan reconstructs the past, her voice competes with the voice of Stephen’s wife, Caro. Both women reveal more than they realise in this story of domestic lives posing universal questions.

Dear Ceridwen is about truth and lies, tricks of memory, betrayal, trust, and above all: hope.

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The Standing Ground (Cinnamon Press, 2007)

The Standing Ground is set in North Wales and Birmingham in a future without freedom where life is unravelling for Luke until he has a virtual encounter with a girl from beyond the all-controlling grip of E-government. Is Alys real? What parts have the mythical characters of the past to play in saving the future and will Luke make it to The Standing Ground?

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