Laura Dockrill is an English performance poet,[1] illustrator and short story writer. Dockrill was born and grew up in Brixton, and attended The Brit School of Performing Arts in Croydon, where she was friends with singer Kate Nash and singer Adele. She has performed at gigs and festivals such as Glastonbury, Latitude, Camp Bestival, The Big Chill, udderBELLY and the London Word Festival, and she has appeared on Newsnight Review and Woman's Hour. She is currently one of the writers-in-residence for the charity First Story.
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Mistakes in the Background
Dockrill’s first book, Mistakes in the Background, is semi-fictional but takes a realistic view of life in London, growing up as a young person and the struggles encountered with youth. She has illustrated her poetry with her own drawings. Her poetry has been described as Quentin Blake and Tim Burton rolled into one, and over 300,000 people have listened to it on myspace.
‘Mistakes in the Background is an absolute treat… it’s about pure old school imagination and art… and is both articulate and wildly creative. The passion that has created this work is evident in every sentence and illustration.’ Wears the Trousers Magazine
Ugly Shy Girl
Dockrill’s second piece of published work, Ugly Shy Girl, is a novella in diary form, which follows the life of a girl who finds it difficult to make friends and who lacks self-confidence.
Echoes
Echoes, which will be published in August 2010, is a collection of short stories featuring animals and food, school children and beggars in London.
She will also be partaking in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six where she has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible[2]