Vivien Jones
Home address:
5 Lakeview, Powfoot, Annan, Dumfries & Galloway, DG12 5PG, ScotlandTelephone:
01461 700396Fax:
01461 700396Email:
vivien@freeola.comBRAW network:
noLL funded:
yesBiography:
I have lived and worked in Scotland for forty years, working in alternative education
until the closure of a school put a full stop under my career as a teacher. I was a mature student at the Crichton Campus of the University of Glasgow in Dumfries where I took a Creative Writing course (part of my MA Hons degree) under the direction of Tom Pow. In the last eight years I have been writing in all the genres that I once taught to others. I am also a founding member of the renaissance music group, The Galloway Consort.
About writer's work:
I am a writer of prose, drama and poetry, which I also perform in readings and collaborative events with musicians. I have a particular interest in renaissance themes which have formed the basis of several performance events including site-specific dramas in historic locations. My prose work is in the form of short stories which explore the small rebellions in everyday life that sustain a sense of individuality, particularly in the lives of women. The themes of my poetry are domestic; rituals of family life, the association of food and nurture, the experience of making and hearing music, and latterly, work on environmental themes.
In 2010 I won the 2010 Poetry London Competition with a poem called 'My Mother's Literature'. www.poetrylondon.co.uk
About writer's events and projects:
I have a strong interest in presenting the written word to live audiences and have created collaborative events with musicians that have seen successful public performances including a performance event in 2007,‘Making Waves’, with all the texts printed into a chapbook, which featured new writing on watery themes with music inspired by texts written by Jackie Galley and me. The same group are currently developing a new programme,’Tree’, which will have performances at the Wigtown and Sedbergh Books Festivals in 2009. In 2008 I worked with three
other writers and two artists to create Soundscapes, an exhibition and reading sequence that was staged twice in the GaelForce Festival of the Arts and which also produced an illustrated chapbook. In 2009 the same group have produced a similar event in association with The Great Wild Goose Chase, also with a chapbook. I am
always willing to discuss new collaborative projects with other writers and artists.
August/Oct 2009 various performances of 'Tree' - a collaborative new writing and musical responses event with writer,Jackie Galley and musicians Richard Jones, Michael Hendrey and Rebecca Hendry. A printed chapbook of texts to accompany performance is available as a free-standing publication.
I am available to do readings and creative writing workshops, especially for those new to the writing process.
Links to other websites:
www.cc.gla.ac.uk:443/crichtonwriters/index.htm
http://www.bibliofaction.com/members/ViewProfile.aspx?member=wordsmith
www.scottishbooktrust.com/node/23037
www.gla.ac.uk/departments/crichtonwriters/writers_pages/showcase.htm
www.newauthors.org.uk/page471.html - 63k -
www.ospreyjournal.co.uk/3cont11.php - 5k -
Language:
EnglishAge groups:
AdultsBooks written
This is poetry that focuses on the small print of existence. There is emphasis on nurture as a vital human activity whether it be with children, lovers or friends, in poems that span the poet s life, ...
