The Writers of Wales Database

HARLEY, REX

81 Kitchener Road, Selly Park, Birmingham B29 7QE
Tel: 01212 463435

Novelist and short–story writer. Long–time teacher of English and author, Rex is now a freelance writer and garden designer. His book Now That I’ve Found You (Pont Books/Gomer, 2003) was shortlisted for the Tir Na N-og Prize in 2004.

Selected Publications:
Last Laugh (Gollancz, 1987)
Black November (Victor Gollancz, 1988)
Family Talk (Macdonald, 1989)
Troublemaker (Victor Gollancz, 1989)
Mary’s Tiger (Orchard, 1989)
Here and Never (Victor Gollancz, 1990)
Now That I’ve Found You (Pont, 2003)

Contributed to:
Poems of Love and Longing (contributor) (Pont, 2008)

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:

1. Using own work as a focus for discussing and practising the craft of fiction
2. More detailed workshop sessions with smaller groups’
3. ’The short story’, considering a variety of other authors too (for older audiences)

AGE RANGE: Happy to work with wide range of ages and group size, from Years 5 to 13; also with adults.