Joan Taylor-Rowan

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Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Writer
Location	London, United Kingdom
Introduction	Used to write letters to my local newspaper to earn pocket money- a junior hack journalist. Have progressed to short stories and my first novel. I have read stories at a range of venues including Brighton Festival and Foyles Bookshop in London. I have had several stories on Radio 4 and was also short-listed for the Asham Award two years ago. I belong to WOOA - a London based writing group that has been going for at least 10 years and is full of fantastic writers.
Interests	Travel, stitch, fashion, words, costume, tango dancing, wet streets at night, old films, flea markets, ice cream parlours, vintage clothes, edible flowers, Latin music, Emil Nolde, circuses, magical realism, Mexico, creative writing, tattoos
Favorite Movies	Anything with Humphrey Bogart, Film Noir, Singing In the Rain, Talk to Her, Angel at my Table, The Piano, Westerns, Gene Kelly
Favorite Music	Currently listening to Martha Wainright, Los de Abajo, Orlando Cachaito Lopez, Adriana Calconhoto, Nouvelle Vague, Joni Mitchell, Tango
Favorite Books	Life of Pi, Unless, Music of Chance, Age of Innocence, anything by David Sedaris, Gilead, Paul Auster, The Stone Diaries, Gabriel Garcis Marques, Bel Canto

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