Vivien Jones
Home address:
5 Lakeview, Powfoot, Annan, Dumfries & Galloway, DG12 5PG, ScotlandTelephone:
01461 700396Fax:
01461 700396Email:
vivien@freeola.comBRAW network:
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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
My first collection of poetry - About Time, Too - was published in September 2010 by Indigo Dreams Publishing and I am currently in receipt of a Creative Scotland Writer's Bursary for my next project - a collection of short fiction and dramatic monologue on a theme of women amongst warriors. My latest poetry collection, 'Kin', was produced and performed from at the 2011 Wigtown Book Festival.
About writer's events and projects:
My first collection of poetry - About Time, Too - was published in September 2010 by Indigo Dreams Publishing and I am currently in receipt of a Creative Scotland Writer's Bursary for my next project - a collection of short fiction and dramatic monologue on a theme of women amongst warriors. 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 have developed a second programme,’Tree’, which had performances at the Wigtown and Sedbergh Books Festivals in 2009 and at Caerlaverock and Carlops in 2010. 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. Through 2011
(6 months) I have been leading a community writing project for first time writers which produced a 48 page illustrated book - 'Shorelines' - out of a series of monthly workshops which sold its first hundred copies in the first week. I have also been one of 26 writers working on the 26 Treasures project with The National Museum of Scotland, which runs from St Andrews Day 2011 until Burns Night 2012.
Links to other websites:
www.vivienjones.info www.indigodreams.co.uk
www.crichtonwriters.ukwriters.net
www.pewter-rose-press.com
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, ...
