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Programme for Swan Playwrights Workshop Exploration
of concepts in drama. 10am Coffee 10.30 Introduction and overview of the day. Exploration of concepts in drama. Power relations between characters Fitting dialogue to character Pace and rhythm in drama Generating dramatic action 12.30– 2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.30 Continuation of workshop 3.30 Coffee Michael W. Thomas: biographical note. e-mail: michaelw.thomas@btinternet.com Michael Wyndham Thomas is originally from Staffordshire, England, and lived in Canada for a number of years. He is now based in Worcestershire. He is an internationally-known poet, fiction-writer, dramatist and musician. His poetry, prose and scripts have appeared in Aereings, English, The English Review, Fire, The Interpreter's House, Iron, Other Poetry, Pennine Platform, Stand, Staple and The Swansea Review (UK), as well as Alive!, From the Horse's Mouth, Grain and Reflections (Canada), Etchings (Australia),The Black Mountain Review and Irish University Review (Ireland) and The Antioch Review, Magazine Six, Modern Haiku, Muscadine Lines and The Secret of Salt (USA). He also reviews for Other Poetry (Durham), Raw Edge (Birmingham) and Poetry Nottingham. Michael's first poetry collection, God's Machynlleth and Other Poems, is available from Flarestack. His latest collection, Port Winston Mulberry, is forthcoming from Peterloo Poets in 2009; while his CD, Seventeen Poems (and a Bit of a Song) is now on release from MayB Studios and has sold very well in the UK and the States. His novel, The Mercury Annual, was published in June 2009 by Silver Age; and his play, Mr. Culverson’s Apostle, will be staged in 2010. He was awarded first prize in the 1998 Housman Society competition and has also gained recognition in the Stand Magazine International Short Fiction competition, the Yorkshire Open competition, two Poets Anonymous competitions, the 2006 Poetry London competition and numerous others. Since April, 2004, Michael has been poet-in-residence at the annual Robert Frost Poetry Festival, Key West, Florida. In consequence, he is now Poet-at-Large in the Navy of the Conch Republic of Key West. He undertakes these 'bardic' duties with due solemnity and happy bafflement. Closer to home, Michael gives frequent radio interviews about the writing life, including ideas for anyone who would like to venture into it. He runs creative writing workshops, in all genres, for the University of Birmingham; and he is also writer-in-residence at various primary schools in the West Midlands as part of Birmingham Book Festival’s Write On! Project. Between 2003 and 2005, he lea highly successful series of poetry sessions at the Ledbury Poetry Festival. As of 2008, he is a tutor for the Open University’s undergraduate Creative Writing courses. This workshop is supported by
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