She has a degree in English from Oxford and started the part-time Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck in September 2009. She has a children’s novel lying in a cupboard and is currently working on an adult novel based loosely on the early life of her father in South Africa. She writes and edits publications for her work, including emagazine, a print magazine for A-level students, and she has had two short stories for children published in English and Media Centre anthologies. Barbara Bleimanīarbara Bleiman is Deputy Director of the English and Media Centre, an educational publisher and teachers’ centre. Gabriela has received two other awards for short fiction (the First Writer International and the Dame Lisbet Throckmorton) and has just been awarded a distinction for her MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. Gabriela's short stories have been published in The London Magazine, Libbon, The Mechanics’ Institute Review and numerous online journals. In addition to her first novel, The Silver Bumblebee, Gabriela has written a collection of short stories, one of which won the Royal Society of Literature V. This is his third time reading at writLOUD and he sometimes blogs at His work has appeared in nthposition and Right Hand Pointing, and at Tales of the Decongested and Liars’ League. Danny Birchallĭanny Birchall grew up in N9 and now lives in W9, where he does his shopping at the Chippenham. Thea lives with two parrots, eight orchids and several hundred books, and is currently taking the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck.
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She has appeared in many roles on TV and in the theatre, and has written novelisations of two children’s TV serials: The Gemini Factor and A Little Silver Trumpet. Thea Bennett is an actress who grew up in South London before it became a desirable place to live. Julia was a member of the Tindal Street Fiction Group and is the co-editor of the bestselling Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan). She has written two novels for young adults – Massive (Young Picador, 2002) and Dirty Work (Young Picador, 2007) – and has just completed her third novel – Wise Up! – which is for ‘adults’. Julia Bell is a novelist and lecturer on Birkbeck’s Creative Writing MA. Apart from working on Battery Boy, her homage to Gormenghast, Tara has also been developing a comic novel, Playground Conversations. Battery Boy has grown into a hundred-year epic that she hopes to finally finish this spring. With no background in writing, academic or otherwise, and nothing published, she started the Creative Writing Certificate course at Birkbeck in October 2009. Around the start of 2007 she began writing Battery Boy, partly because she discovered Mervyn Peake in 2006. Tara Basi had a long career in IT that ended abruptly in 2005.
Tara Basiīattery Boy - extract from Chapter One: Another Day She is studying for her MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck her story ‘The Motherfucking Paperback Queen of Anadarko’ will appear in The Mechanics’ Institute Review Issue 6 (September 2009). Currently living in the messiest house in all of South London, Anna enjoys reading, drinking red wine, eating cake and being right. She now works in the editorial department of a world-famous romance publisher. Following a brief stint of globetrotting, including a short time living in Berlin, Anna began her career in publishing. Anna BaggaleyĪnna Baggaley gained a BA in English and Drama from Bristol University. He writes regularly for the music e-zine Cokemachineglow and has poems published in the online literary magazine nthposition. Book of Clouds is her first novel.Īlan Baban is currently taking a year out from medical school to study for an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck. She then spent five years in Berlin and now lives in London. She studied for a BA at Harvard, and gained her DPhil on poetry and magic in nineteenth-century France from Oxford University. Chloe AridjisĬhloe Aridjis was born in New York, and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico City. Rosie enjoys the poetry of ee cummings, the short stories of Lorrie Moore and dancing with gay abandon. Rosie Allabarton is currently a postgraduate student in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and has had her poetry published in Popshot Magazine, Poetry Monthly and Cadaverine. Her stories have been featured in Tell Tales, The Mechanics' Institute ReviewĪnd LITRO. Oustanding Achievement Award (2006) and a grant from the Arts Council of England (2007). 'The Shed' is taken from her debut collection of short fiction, 29 Ways toĭrown, which was published in 2007 by lubin & kleyner. She studiedĮnglish Literature at the University of Illinois and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the Niki Aguirre has lived and travelled widely in the US, Latin America and Europe. For current writLOUD information, please see the Writers' Hub. As of July 2010, this site is no longer being maintained.
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