Geoffrey Heptonstall

Poet

Cambridge U.K., CAM
United Kingdom
Cambridgeshire GB
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Author's Bio

Geoffrey Heptonstall is an English writer based in Cambridge. He has taught Writing as adjunct lectuerer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and at various locations for the Open College of the Arts. 

He has published four volumes of poetry and a novel.  He has contributed to about a dozen anthologies of poetry or fiction. Other writing includes a number of plays staged, broadcast, workshopped  and/or published. He has written regularly for Contemporary Review, Litro, The London Magazine, London Progressive Journal, Open Democracy, and Pennsylvania Literary Journal.

 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
A WHISPERING (Cyberwit.net, 2023)
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THE WICKEN BIRD (Cyberwit.net, 2022)
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SAPPHO'S MOON (Cyberwit.net, 2021)
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THE RITES OF PARADISE (Cyberwit.net, 2020)
Prizes won: 

1980 Elected as Fellow, Royal Society of Arts;1985 Arts Council of England (East Midlands division) Bursary; 1988 St Katharine’s Foundation Bursary;1994 Scottish Arts Council/Association of Scottish Literature Commendation; 2012 Script Sessions Winter Writing Award; 2013 Avan-Ballan Poetry Award; 2014 Short-listed for the Jasperian Award for Drama Scripts. Festival of Firsts Poetry Award 2014/2018. Shortlisted for the Subtext Award. 2020

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
John Fowles. Angelique Jamail. John Berryman. Judah Ha-Levi. Lawrence Durrell. George Steiner. Virginia Woolf. Paul Eluard. W.H. Auden. Edna O'Brien. Euripedes. Sappho.
What I'm reading now: 
Natural History by Pliny the Elder, The Sea and the Mirror by W.H. Auden, The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Rosten

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Homelessness
Fluent in: 
English, French
Born in: 
United Kingdom
Raised in: 
United Kingdom
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Last update: Nov 30, 2023