The Writers of Wales Database

BRIGHTMORE, GILLIAN

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Fiction writer based in Cardiff. She has worked as a creative writing / literature tutor with the Open University, Centre of Lifelong Learning, University of Glamorgan and is currently with the Open College of the Arts, as well as offering mentoring for work in progress. Gillian received a John Downes Award in fiction in 1989 and a WAC Writers’ Bursary for a short story collection from 1999-2000. She presented a paper on Angela Carter at the Swansea Year of Literature in 1995, and is a Member of the Society of Authors.

Her special interests include American Literature, Crime Fiction, contemporary women’s writing as well as links between creativity and mental illness. Gillian’s work has appeared in various publications including Everywoman, Storylines, a publication by O.C.A, Velvet Magazine, the Big Issue and the Western Mail. She has work forthcoming in Planet, Roundyhouse and a Parthian publication in 2009.

Selected Publications:
Too Much Midnight (Stone Lantern Press, 1989)

Contributed to:
Exchanges (contributor) (Honno, 1996)
The Woman Who Loved Cucumbers (contributor) (Honno, 2002)
Mirror Mirror (contributor) (Honno, 2004)