Wayne Dean-Richards
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| Introduction | I was born in 1961 and have lived in London, Nottingham and places in between before returning to the West Midlands. After completing a degree in Creative Arts I worked, at various times, as an actor, an industrial cleaner, a caretaker, a salesman, a painter and decorator, a fitness coach, a lecturer, and a teacher. I've taught on various creative writing programmes and read my work live, on radio, and on film. I have edited a number of anthologies and the literary magazine Chronicles of Disorder. My short stories have been published in over forty magazines or anthologies in the UK and the US. A number of stories were collected in the West Midlands Arts funded At The Edge, what Raw Edge Magazine described as: 'gritty, suspenseful tales of lives approaching some crunch point or catharsis - often with a menacing undercurrant and a twist at the end' what the poet Roshan Doug called: 'short story writing at its best: deep, real and artistic.' A novel, Breakpoints, also funded by West Midlands Arts, is available from Amazon UK. The philopher and critic Sarayon Ray said of me: 'Dean-Richards is a writer whose minimalist prose resonates very, very deeply.' |
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