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Jonathan Taylor
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Location:
Loughborough, Leicestershire
Genres:
Horror, SciFi & Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Other, Plays and Scripts, Poetry, Writing for Young Adults
Biography
Jonathan Taylor is the author of Take Me Home: Parkinson’s, My Father, Myself, a memoir published by Granta Books in 2007. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at De Montfort University, and co-director and co-founder of Crystal Clear Creators, an arts organisation which specialises in developing, recording, producing, publishing and promoting new writing, particularly for radio. He has written stories, prose pieces and articles for magazines and newspapers including Guardian Family, Times 2, Guardian Education, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher, Stand, Staple, Coffee House, Family History Monthly, The Parkinson, Kimota, Raw Edge and many others. He has had stories, plays and interviews broadcast on radio stations across the country, including Oneword, BBC Radio 5,BBC Wales, BBC Scotland, local BBC radio stations, Resonance FM, Carillon, Takeover, Heat Rays, Heat FM and many others. He has performed his work in venues across the U.K., including Loughborough, Leicester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Kingston, Lowdham, Southampton, Nottingham, and elsewhere. He has organised and hosted public readings by many well-known writers, and open mic events. He is co-editor, with Maria Taylor, of Fizzle & Sizzle, a new anthology of writing by young Leicestershire authors. Academically speaking, he is the author of Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Sussex Academic Press, 2007) and Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003), as well as co-editor with Andrew Dix of Figures of Heresy (Sussex Academic Press, 2005).
Bibliography
Selected Publications
BOOKS AUTHORED
Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Sussex Academic Press, Eastbourne, September 2007, 272 pages, ISBN 1845191250, or 978-1845191252.
Take Me Home: Parkinsons, My Father, Myself [memoir], Granta, London and New York, July 2007, 272 pages, ISBN 1862079552. (Translation rights also sold to Portugese publisher, Pedra La Luna).
Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003, 229 pages, ISBN 0-333-99312-8.
BOOKS EDITED
Fizzle & Sizzle: An Anthology of New Writing by Young Writers in Leicestershire, co-edited with Maria Taylor, Crystal Clear Creators (CCC) Publishing, Loughborough, 2008, ISBN: 0-9551800-2-3, 978-0-9551800-2-6.
Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000 [book of essays], co-edited with Dr. Andrew Dix, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2006, 228 pages, ISBN 1-84519-026-2
Contributed to
Guardian Education, Guardian Family, Times Families, Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Coffee House, Stand, Staple, Times Higher, Kimota, and many others.
Performances & Workshops
Performances and workshops given throughout the UK.
Available for the following:
Community Group Work, Lectures / Talks / Panels, Live Performances, Teaching, Volunteering, WorkshopsWork Experience/Qualifications
See websites.
Want to know more?
You can request more information about this writer by sending an email to antonia@writingeastmidlands.co.uk.
My Work
Websites, blogs and links to work
Home
http://jonnyandmaria.googlepages.com/University
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/Arts organisation
http://www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk/
