Member: William Campbell
In 1990 I had never written a play, and anticipated never writing one. That was the year I joined Slough Writers and a few years later was encouraged to enter the group’s first one-act play competition. No Picnic won, and was staged by the Windsor Theatre Guild collecting a best actress award at the Henley Drama Festival.
Since then my playwriting has seen a dozen productions, half a dozen awards, two published and a four-month funded dramaturgy at Reading Girls’ School.
In parallel, short stories and poems keep popping out, as well as an historical novel. Journalism has taken the form of four years drama reviewing for the Reading Post and currently, as Fresh After Fifty, a column for the Slough Observer.
If you want to read more about the writing I never thought I’d visit, along with some that were on my itinerary BSW (Before Slough Writers), take an excursion to my website.
Successes
Collaborations: Glass sculptor Martin Donlin. Visual artist Christine Wilkinson. London School of Musical Theatre. Feet First Improvisation Dance, Traditional Arts Projects with Robb Johnson.
Community: Founding editor of short story magazine Story Cellar. Four publications with community publisher Corridor Press, and A Town Like Slough for Slough Council. Workshops facilitator.
Journalism: Slough Observer column. Reading Post drama reviewer. Articles published in leisure, computing, and writing magazines.
Novels: Most recent is Love Locked following one inevitable semi-auto-biographical, and two novellas.
Poetry: Oast House Challenge Cup for The Sludge Seaman Who Drowned and Zinnia. Vanilla Ripple, Family Men, Leaded Windows among the competition winners.
Scripts: Guernica Goodbye and Relief published. A dozen plays staged. High Hopes toured SE England starring Joan Blackman.
Stories: Bridport Prize winner with Change at Crewe, and Rhinoscerotic for the Library of Avalon. Computer Dating won the British Computer Society 50th anniversary competition.
Interests
Dance: jive, Latin, ballroom, improvisation poetry-dance.
Gardening - to eat. Cycling, walking - for pleasure.
Nuclear physics.
Visual arts and theatre.
Expertise
Dance: jive, Latin, ballroom, improvisation poetry-dance.
Gardening - to eat. Cycling, walking - for pleasure.
Nuclear physics.
Visual arts and theatre.