Caroline Moir Explained

Caroline Moir is a British author based in Kendal UK, close to the Lake District National Park.

She is known for writing plays, fiction (genres include the dystopic and modern gothic) and creative non-fiction. A focus of her work is also as an educationalist and promoter of literary arts. She studied English & philosophy at the University of Birmingham, masters at Lancaster University and a PhD from the University of Glasgow.^[1]

Moir has written two novels Jemillia (2007) and The Brockenspectre (2011), with work on the third commencing from 2013/14. Commissions include BBC Radio, Ripon Cathedral and Kendal Community Theatre.^{[2] [3]}

Moir collaborates regularly with fellow writers and artists, amongst them Guy Wilson (The Armed Man). Through these collaborations, she is active in a number of progressive literary circles, co-establishing The Leeds Peace Poetry Festival in 2003 and Warehouse Writers Workshop at The Brewery Arts Centre Kendal in 2006. In 2015/16 as a founder and member of Kendal Community Theatre, she co-created Kendal Yarns Festival - a week long festival of plays featuring over 50 new plays by people from the region, with involvement from a number of nationally acclaimed theatre directors.^[4]

Publications

• Timeo Danaos (From Glasgow to Saturn, 2011);^{[5] [6]}
• A goat, a duppy & a walnut tree (Unbound Press/Spilling Ink Review, 2011);^{[7] [8]}
• Homage à Rabelais en Roussillon (Brand Magazine, 2010)^[9]
• St Wilfred of Ripon or A Tale of Two Tonsures (commissioned & performed, 2009)
• Nusf Sahaa (BRAND, 2009)
• Asda (swampwriting, 2008)
• The Kendal Shepherds' Play (commissioned & performed, 2007); *Flight (Muse, 2006)
• Mary's Story (commissioned & performed, 2005);^[10]
• The Man Who Told a Lie (Transmission, 2005)
• A Passion for Kendal^{[11] [12]}
• Lady Anne Clifford: A Woman Cast Out

Notes and References

1. The Brockenspectre: The novel as site of transcendental homelessness. 2012. University of Glasgow. PhD. Moir. Caroline J. G..
2. Web site: Kendal Community Theatre stage Caroline Moir's Lady Anne Clifford – a woman cast out. 15 July 2013 .
3. Web site: News. 27 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316091108/http://www.kendalcommunitytheatre.org/apps/blog/. 16 March 2015. dead.
4. Web site: Kendal Community Theatre - Kendal Yarns. 28 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316231908/http://www.kendalcommunitytheatre.org/kendal-yarns. 16 March 2015. dead.
5. http://glasgowtosaturn.com/archive/ Archive | From Glasgow to Saturn
6. Web site: https://fromglasgowtosaturn.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/issue22.pdf.
7. http://unboundpress.com/authors/authors-k-p/caroline-moir/ Caroline Moir | Unbound Press
8. Web site: Felixstowe Scribblers 2021: Spilling Ink Review. 19 March 2011.
9. Web site: Brandliterarymagazine.co.uk.
10. http://www.swampwriting.com/?page_id=62 » Asda
11. http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/9221794.First_ever_passion_play_for_Kendal/ First-ever passion play for Kendal (From The Westmorland Gazette)
12. http://apassionforkendal.blogspot.com/ A Passion For Kendal: Kendal Community Theatre