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Ian Hunter

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Contact: ihunter24601@hotmail.com
Local authority: South Lanarkshire
Languages: English
Author type: Performance Poet, Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Writer
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Award-winning writer Ian Hunter is the children's author of novels The Dark Knight's Blade, Lipstick Lass, The Magic Mousehole and Santa Claus is Missing. He is also a short story writer and poet. He has twice been a writer in residence, is a Director of the Scottish Writer's Collective Read Raw, and a member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writer's Circle.

For over a decade he has been the poetry editor for the British Fantasy Society, and reviews books for Interzone, Concatenation and Shoreline of Infinity. His fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories and poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and Canada.

Websites featuring the author

Local authorities can visit

Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Glasgow City; Midlothian; North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events can deliver

Panel event; Performance; Reading; Talk; Workshop; Chairing events

Audience can work with

People experiencing mental health problems

Topics of work

Adventure; Ageing; Care experience; Crime fiction; Fairy tales, folklore & mythology; Fantasy; Horror; Science fiction

Age groups published for

Children; Teens; Adults

Age groups can work with

6-8; 9-11; 12-14; 15-18; Adults

Audience size

11-30