The Writers of Wales Database

HOPWOOD, CLIVE

Holly House, Bridge Street, Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, SY21 0RY
Tel: 01938 811355
Email: clivehopwood@btinternet.com
See: www.writersinprisonnetwork.com; wipn@btinternet.com

Writer, editor, director, storyteller. Clive has over 100 titles published and had more than 20 plays performed. He has worked in theatre, TV, publishing and community arts. His work covers oral storytelling, drama, creative writing, video production and reminiscence with all ages in schools, libraries, community centres, nursing homes and hospitals, prisons and festivals. Clive set up ID BOOKS (Connah’s Quay) writers’ group and community publisher in 1990 – now with more than 700 writers in print and over 100 titles published. He is a Director of the Society for Storytelling and Director of the Writers in Prison Network (Arts Council England) and a member of the Arts Alliance steering group.

Winner of the Lord Longford Prize 2004

Selected Publications:
Making Waves (World)
Inside Out: A Survivor’s Guide to Prison (Bar None Books)
The Dreaming (multi-media play)
Free with Words: Writers in Residence in Prison (Arts Council England/Bar None Books)
Land of Stories: Myths, Legends & Folktales (Bar None Books/Flintshire County Council)

Contributed to:
Relative to Me (editor/contributor) (Commonword)

Recent Projects:
AKA: video docu-drama with Dyfed Powys Probation Services (2009)
Uttoxeter Storytelling Festival: Schools & community groups (National Storytelling Week) (2010)
Free Spirit and Blind Faith: Two teenage novellas for SPCK (2010)
Lost in Pantoland: Community pantomime (2010)
 

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:

1. Workshops/courses – oral storytelling, drama, short story, how to publish your own book, screenwriting, making videos, reminiscence
2. Illustrated talks - working as a writer, theatre, publishing, writing in prison
3. Writers’ one-to-one surgeries
4. Performance/reading
5. Drama or video production
6. Book typesetting/design/editing or publish a book with a group

AGE RANGE: All ages welcome: primary school to senior citizens