Tony Gillam (born Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 1961) is a mental health nurse, writer and musician. A long-standing regular contributor to nursing and mental health journals, he has written more than 80 articles and a book, Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing (1), (published in 2002.) He founded the Music Workshop Project (which won a MIND Millennium Award in 1997, earning him lifetime membership of the Millennium Awards Fellowship). In 1998, Tony achieved international recognition as the only UK winner of the Lilly Schizophrenia Reintegration Award and in 2008, was awarded a Meriden Carers’ Award and was highly commended in the Ian Falloon Memorial Awards for his work in the area of family interventions. He is a trainer in family interventions and also a visiting lecturer at the University of Worcester.
Alongside his career in mental health nursing, Tony is also a musician and singer-songwriter. He has released an album Untangle the Strings (2) under his own name and two EPs recorded under the name Teach Yourself Shorthand. He is a member of the writer’s group Severn Valley Authors. Writing as Anthony Gillam he published his children's timeslip novel A Passenger in Time (3) in 2009 and has a blog Passengers in Time which purports to deal with ‘Books, Music ... even a bit of Time Travel.’ He is currently working on a project that will bring together his interests in creativity and mental health.
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Gillam, T. (2002) Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing, London: Routledge.
Gillam, A. (2009) A Passenger in Time, Brighton: Pen Press.
Dizzy Heights EP by Teach Yourself Shorthand (2002)
Supper in the Morning EP by Teach Yourself Shorthand (2004)
Untangle the Strings (released by BiziB Music (2007)
(1) Gillam, T. (2002) Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing, London: Routledge.
(2) Untangle the Strings (2007) BiziB Music.
(3) Gillam, A. (2009) A Passenger in Time, Brighton: Pen Press.
Passengers in Time blog: http://passengersintime.blogspot.com/
Severn Valley Authors blog: http://severnvalleyauthors.blogspot.com/
BiziB Music website http://bizibmusic.com/3.html