The Writers of Wales Database

FLOWERS, ANITA

House of Angels
Mobile: 07790 361570
Email: anitaflowers@me.com  
Website: http://anitaflowers.wordpress.com 
 
Poet and short/story/children’s writer, Anita was born in Barry, South Glamorgan. She has a Communications Degree, BA Hons from Glamorgan University and an MA in Creative Writing, from Trinity College, Carmarthen. She was first published in 1990 in Leek, the College magazine. Anita has written for local newspapers national magazines and performed her poetry in a variety of venues. 

Her workshops have become a vehicle for groups and individuals to explore and express themselves.  Anita has worked extensively with vulnerable children and adults in the community. She first introduced eXpression Sessions as a teaching/learning method when employed as a writer in residence with Pembrokeshire Mind, using her book Masking the Madness as an invitation to write from personal experience (see her 'Eligible Writers on Tour Subjects offered' listing below for more information).

She also facilitates the award winning Breaking Free: A Cultural Diversity Programme in HMP and YOI Parc, where creative writing plays an integral part of the workshops delivered. This resulted in the 2008 House of Angels publication Breaking Free; a dialogue between the inmates of HMP Parc, Bridgend and Harrison Point Prison, Barbados, to celebrate 200 years since the parlimentary abolition of the slave trade. Anita also enjoys facilitating the written word and readings with the visual arts, as well as gathering for a preventative justice publication Over the Wall, the reflective voices of prisoners, their families, loved ones, prison staff and the victims/survivors of crime whose lives have been affected.

Anita is currently illustrating her most recent work, a childrens educational book entitled An Angel in My Bath.

Reviews:
With respect to Masking The Madness (House of Angels, 2006)

"…These stories guide us through complexities and depths of human relationships and predicaments. We are drawn into intricacies of everyday communion, and to experience usually kept very private or only in secret imagination. Offering extremes of relationship and emotion, Anita Flowers holds readers in the palm of her hand…"
Gillie Bolton, Award-winning poet and author of The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing

"…Anita Flowers’ work takes risks, explores tough issues and expresses its concerns with fluency and verve…"
Robert Nisbet, Author of Downtrain

With respect to An Angel in My Bath

"…Literature like this doesn’t happen often. The imagination of Anita Flowers has created a wonderful story that draws you in and takes you away. You fly with it, and then it places you down gently. This book is a piece of magic that comes of the page and touches you in many places. You have been warned it’s beautiful…"
Benjamin Zephaniah


Selected Publications:
Masking The Madness (House of Angels, 2006)
An Angel in My Bath (forthcoming)

Contributed to:
True Colours, A Collection Of New Writing (contributor) (Access Publishing, 2004)
Poster Poems (contributor) (Access Publishing, 2004)
Before I Forget (contributor) (Pembrokeshire Mind, 2005)
Breaking Free (contributor) (House of Angels, 2008)
Inside Out: Real Life Stories From Parc Prison, Bridgend (Quick Reads Series) (contributor) (Accent Press, 2009)
 
 

 

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:

1. Reading and discuss own work
2. Creative and reflective workshops
3. Writing as therapy and healing
4. Own short story readings and discussions
5. eXpression Sessions. Click here for more information 

AGE RANGE: 7 upwards. All abilities