Caroline Moir

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

References

1. Moir, Caroline J. G. (2012). The Brockenspectre: The novel as site of transcendental homelessness (PhD). University of Glasgow.
2. "Kendal Community Theatre stage Caroline Moir's Lady Anne Clifford – a woman cast out". 15 July 2013.
3. "News". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
4. "Kendal Community Theatre - Kendal Yarns". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
5. Archive | From Glasgow to Saturn
6. https://fromglasgowtosaturn.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/issue22.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
7. Caroline Moir | Unbound Press Archived 21 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Felixstowe Scribblers 2021: Spilling Ink Review". 19 March 2011.
9. "Brandliterarymagazine.co.uk" (PDF).
10. » Asda
11. First-ever passion play for Kendal (From The Westmorland Gazette)
12. A Passion For Kendal: Kendal Community Theatre