Caroline Moir

Caroline Moir is a British author based in Kendal UK, close to the Lake District National Park.

She is known for writing plays, fiction (genres include the dystopic and modern gothic) and creative non-fiction. A focus of her work is also as an educationalist and promoter of literary arts. She studied English & philosophy at the University of Birmingham, masters at Lancaster University and a PhD from the University of Glasgow.[1]

Moir has written two novels Jemillia (2007) and The Brockenspectre (2011), with work on the third commencing from 2013/14. Commissions include BBC Radio, Ripon Cathedral and Kendal Community Theatre.[2][3]

Moir collaborates regularly with fellow writers and artists, amongst them Guy Wilson (The Armed Man). Through these collaborations, she is active in a number of progressive literary circles, co-establishing The Leeds Peace Poetry Festival in 2003 and Warehouse Writers Workshop at The Brewery Arts Centre Kendal in 2006. In 2015/16 as a founder and member of Kendal Community Theatre, she co-created Kendal Yarns Festival - a week long festival of plays featuring over 50 new plays by people from the region, with involvement from a number of nationally acclaimed theatre directors.[4]

Publications

  • Timeo Danaos (From Glasgow to Saturn, 2011);[5][6]
  • A goat, a duppy & a walnut tree (Unbound Press/Spilling Ink Review, 2011);[7][8]
  • Homage à Rabelais en Roussillon (Brand Magazine, 2010)[9]
  • St Wilfred of Ripon or A Tale of Two Tonsures (commissioned & performed, 2009)
  • Nusf Sahaa (BRAND, 2009)
  • Asda (swampwriting, 2008)
  • The Kendal Shepherds' Play (commissioned & performed, 2007); *Flight (Muse, 2006)
  • Mary's Story (commissioned & performed, 2005);[10]
  • The Man Who Told a Lie (Transmission, 2005)
  • A Passion for Kendal[11][12]
  • Lady Anne Clifford: A Woman Cast Out

References

  1. ^ Moir, Caroline J. G. (2012). The Brockenspectre: The novel as site of transcendental homelessness (PhD). University of Glasgow.
  2. ^ "Kendal Community Theatre stage Caroline Moir's Lady Anne Clifford – a woman cast out". 15 July 2013.
  3. ^ "News". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Kendal Community Theatre - Kendal Yarns". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  5. ^ Archive | From Glasgow to Saturn
  6. ^ https://fromglasgowtosaturn.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/issue22.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ Caroline Moir | Unbound Press Archived 21 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Felixstowe Scribblers 2021: Spilling Ink Review". 19 March 2011.
  9. ^ "Brandliterarymagazine.co.uk" (PDF).
  10. ^ » Asda
  11. ^ First-ever passion play for Kendal (From The Westmorland Gazette)
  12. ^ A Passion For Kendal: Kendal Community Theatre