Christine Coleman: Author & Poet



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Events for 2008 Following on from the success of the Stratford event (below) Christine will be appearing again with Clarissa Dickson Wright at the Throckmorton Literary Festival at Coughton Court in Warwickshire, which runs from 19th to 21st September 2008 Click this link to see the article on Christine Coleman that appeared on Saturday 3rd May. Stratford Literary Festival (Thursday 1st May 6.30 pm). Christine and her friend, Clarissa Dickson Wright in lively conversation about writing matters. For more details, scroll down to page 6 of the full Festival Programme. The Bookcrossing Convention (April 18th to 20th) Christine reads from and talks about her novel, *The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society, and her new book, Paper Lanterns*
	Christine won Ist prize in The New Writer 'Single Poem' category was published in the June 07 edition. Click here to read the winning poem NEW VENTURES: Christine is a qualified teacher of English and an experienced creative writing tutor. She is available for leading writing workshops both in UK and abroad. Contact christine.coleman@hotmail.co.uk Christine Coleman, Poet and Novelist. Christine Coleman spent her childhood in the Sussex country side, and her late teens and early twenties in Dublin, where she learned to enjoy Guinness and climb mountains while gaining a degree in English at Trinity College . She now lives in Sutton Coldfield and works as manager of an Adult Education Centre in Birmingham, devoting most of her spare time to writing fiction and poetry. FICTION Her novel, *The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society* , was published by Transita in 2005. It is available in all good book shops and Amazon.co.uk. Click here to find out more about Agnes Borrowdale and her adventures. The initial germ of the idea for this novel took hold while she was dangling from a paraglider 3,000 feet above a lagoon on an island in the Indian Ocean. She believes that the saying, 'Life begins at forty,' doesn't go far enough, and feels that as we get older we can gain inspiration from seeing people in their seventies or eighties rise to the challenge of new ventures Her other novel for adults, In The Lamb-White Days, and her children's fantasy novel, *The Tide Machines of Mermaid's Rock, are not yet in print.. Click on the amazon.co.uk logo below to purchase a copy of The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society*.
POETRY Several of Christine's poems have won national competitions and/or have been published in magazines. Her pamphlet collection, Single Travellers, was published by Flarestack in 2004, and her work features in Four Caves of the Heart (Second Light Publications 2004), an anthology of fourteen women poets. Together with a group of three other poets under the name of Late Shift , she has given performances at poetry festivals and arts centres around the country, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2003 and St Andrews Festival in 2005. ***************************************************** A selection of FICTION events: Saturday 30th June 07 Christine gives a talk at the Bookcrossers Unconvention in Brighton. Thursday May 24th 07 Christine interviews Booker-Shortlisted author, Clare Morrall. Click here to find out more.(Also on the Birmingham Words website - scroll down to A Tale of Two Authors ) Tuesday April 3rd 07 Christine pairs up with fellow Transita author, Linda Gillard to talk to a gathering of Bookcrossers at Hudson's Coffee House in Birmingham. Saturday 9th December 06 Transita Books and BookCrossing present "If You Love Books, Set One Free" Christine is one of seven authors at an 'Author-Event' at Oxford Town Hall, where numerous BookCrossers from around the country come to meet some of us and, once and for all, to scotch the myth that Bookcrossers don't buy books! Read a brief account by LizzyBee 16th October 06 Christine talks about her novel, The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society to The Sutton Coldfield branch of The British Federation of Women Graduates 18th October 06 Read here about Christine's talk on her novel, The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society** at Mere Green Library, Sutton Coldfield
***************************************************** A selection of POETRY events: 8th September 06 at The Orange Studio, Birmingham 28th September 06 at the Windsor Festival *************************************************** Links to some Independent bookshops and others which stock The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society Bonds Books, Harbourne** James Redshaw, Lichfield Much Ado Books, Alfriston Pittshanger Books City Books, Hove Ottakers, Sutton Coldfield Borders Books