The Writers of Wales Database

MIMPRISS, ROB

Tel: 01248 372374
Email: mail@robmimpriss.com
Website: www.robmimpriss.com  

Rob is a short story writer and creative writing tutor. He has had two books published by Gwasg y Bwthyn, Caernarfon: Reasoning: Twenty Stories (2005) and For His Warriors: Thirty Stories (2010). For His Warriors is currently on the long list for the Frank O'Connor Award.

He has designed and taught on B.A. and M.A. courses in England and Wales since 1999, organising readings and seminars for the general public and appearing at events alongside Liz Ashworth, Richard Collins, Gareth Creer, Menna Elfyn, Patrick McGuinness, Jim Perrin, Zoë Skoulding, Charlotte Williams, Gee Williams, Samantha Wynne Rhydderch and others. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff and a PhD in Creative Writing from Portsmouth, and also publishes criticism. He is a Member of the Welsh Academy.
 

Reviews:

"…a quiet writer with a loud voice. I'll be listening for more…"
Michael Nobbs

'…sketched with a depth and sureness of touch which makes them memorable and haunting' Caroline Clark


Selected Publications:
Reasoning: Twenty Stories (Gwasg y Bwthyn, 2005)
For His Warriors: Thirty Stories (Gwasg y Bwthyn, 2010)
White City (forthcoming)

Reasoning: Twenty Stories
 
The style of the stories is deeply traditional, their content unsettlingly modern. In the same way, life in rural Wales is troubled by events taking place in the outside world. A strong historic awareness and a restlessly questing conscience suggest a writer less concerned with making his mark than with understanding what it means to inherit a Christian and Western heritage at the start of the twenty-first century.


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For His Warriors

A Welsh farmer's wife during the Second World War kills the land-girl her husband has taken as his lover. A leader of the Cornish-language revival commits her last act of protest the day Russian troops march into Berlin. A lonely man on the waterfront at Llandudno wonders whether he or his girlfriend will be first to die of Aids, and a bored man in a restaurant in Cardiff Bay invents a story of arrest and torture in Czechoslovakia to amuse his petulant lover.
 

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Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:

1. Fiction readings
2. Workshops and seminars for readers and writers

AGE RANGE: all adult ages
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: non–driver