Tom Murray
Home address:
26 Hillview Crescent, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, TD7 4AZ, ScotlandTelephone:
01750 20408Email:
tmurraytg@aol.comWebsite:
www.tommurray.orgBRAW network:
noLL funded:
yesBiography:
Tom Murray is a playwright, fiction writer and poet currently living in the Scottish Borders. He is currently Creative Writing Fellow to Tyne & Esk Writers. He was recently Writer in Residence for Clackmannanshire Council. He has been a lecturer in Creative Writing at Borders College. He works extensively with writers groups and schools and has been Writer in Residence to Galashiels Academy and Peebles High School.
He is an editor of the literary magazine The Eildon Tree. He co organised the 2005 Borders Book Festival fringe and the 2009 and 2010
Eildon Tree Writers Festival. He is an award winning playwright, his
play 'Sins of the Father' a winner of the 2009 Rowan Tree Playwriting Competition.
About writer's work:
I like to look at different ways of telling a story while at the same time maintaining a clear narrative. To me the characters drive the story--their feelings, hopes and fears, and ways of dealing with the pressures upon them. Recently I have collaborated with other artists who work with sculpture, paint, photographs, video and audio. This has been very fruitful in opening up new areas of thought and development.
These collaborations include writing text for sculpture. Also recording stories from writers to be available through a story box.
About writer's events and projects:
I am available to do residencies, readings, workshops, in prose poetry and drama. I am willing to travel. During my time as Writer in Residence to Clackmannanshire I ran workshops on subjects which include Character, To Rhyme or Not, The Villanelle, song lyrics, writing for Graphic novels. I helped organise a Writers Festival in the region and ran workshops on Flash Fiction, Imagery in Poetry, and Writing for Children. I have also mentored individual writers over a period of time. I have worked in schools, both primary and secondary. Youth Theatre. Writers groups. Prisons. Other organisations such as Family Centres where I have worked with staff, parents and children. I have also been involved with mental health organisations as a script adviser on a short film project, as well as running creative writing workshops.
I have worked with adults both as individual writers and groups in a wide variety of organisations. Adults with learning disability, physical disability or sensory impairment. Also mental health organisations. Services provided included feedback and continuous development of individual's creative writing. Also developing a story and script, in a group environment, which was produced into a short film
Language:
EnglishAge groups:
0-4, 5-8, 9-12, Teens, Adults