November 2006
We were proud to present the hugely talented: Linda France, Pippa Little, Celia McCulloch and Tom Deighton.
LINDA FRANCE was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. After some time living away, she moved back to the North East in 1981. She currently lives close to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. Her poetry collections, published by Bloodaxe Books, include The Simultaneous Dress (2002) and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club (2005), a biography in verse of the 18th century traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Linda also edited the acclaimed anthology Sixty Women Poets (Bloodaxe 1993). She has worked on a number of collaborations with visual artists and musicians and over 20 Public Art projects. Linda currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Find out more about Linda's work at .
www.lindafrance.co.uk
PIPPA LITTLE lives in Northumberland with three sons, a husband and an adopted retired guide dog. She has been a teacher, student, editor, in-house writer and a cleaner among many other jobs, but has always written poetry. In October, Vane Women published her first collection, The Spar Box.
CELIA McCULLOCH has been writing poetry and short stories regularly, seriously and playfully, for the last 20 or so years and has been published in Northern literary magazines. The Laden Table is her first collection of poetry and she is working on her second collection based on her MA in Creative Writing portfolio.
TOM DEIGHTON was born in 1977 in the North of England. Shortly afterwards he was dragged down South and forced to speak like a BBC Announcer from the nineteen forties. He returned to the North but this early trauma sadly proved to be irreparable and he is doomed to spend the rest of his days mispronouncing simple words like bath and grass. He studied English at Newcastle University and recently completed their MA in Creative Writing.