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 comencing 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