Kevan Manwaring is a writer, teacher and professional storyteller. His current projects are a screenplay about Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken) and a couple of TV pilots (Black Road; The Rambling House). He thinks in ink and dreams in movies. He ...
moreKevan Manwaring is a writer, teacher and professional storyteller. His current projects are a screenplay about Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken) and a couple of TV pilots (Black Road; The Rambling House). He thinks in ink and dreams in movies. He is the author of 15 books to date, with 3 more commissioned.
Holder of an MA in the Teaching and Practice in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, he teaches creative writing for the Open University and Skyros Writers' Lab. He also runs freelance courses in storytelling and various aspects of the writing process to a wide variety of students. As a professional storyteller he has appeared in numerous shows both solo and with Fire Springs, both in Britain and abroad (USA, Italy and Malta). He is the author of Turning the Wheel, The Bardic Handbook, Lost Islands, the ongoing Windsmith books and his poems and articles have appeared in several magazines and anthologies. He runs the Stroud Writers' Workshop & is the founder of Awen Publications. In 2010 he was a Writer-in-Residence at El Gouna, a resort on the Red Sea, Egypt. He lives in Stroud, England and rides a Triumph Legend motorbike.