JULIA DARLING

Julia Darling has lived in the North East of England since 1980. She began her writing career as a poet and worked with The Poetry Virgins for many years, touring and writing material for performance. In 1995 she published a book of short stories Bloodlines and many of these stories were broadcast on Radio Four. She continues to write short stories, many of which are anthologised or broadcast. In 1998 her novel Crocodile Soup was auctioned by six publishing houses and published by Anchor at Transworld. The novel went on to be published in Canada , Australia , Europe and the States.

She has written many stage plays too, beginning with youth theatre productions and then writing for touring companies. Her most recent works are Venetia Love Goes Netting, Personal Belongings, Sea-life (broadcast live on Radio 4) and The Last Post which have all been produced by Live Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne .

Julia has been working with glass designer Cate Watkinson to produce words on glass and marble benches throughout the city centre, officially launched in the Spring of 2002. Also with Cate she has just been working on a glass window for the Port of Tyne Building in South Shields . She has recently signed a two-book deal with Penguin Books and her play Personal Belongings was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The former Associate Royal Literary Fellow at Newcastle University , Julia is now on a Project Fellowship at Newcastle University working with patients and health professionals. She is also Writer in Residence at Live Theatre in Newcastle with the poet Sean O'Brien.

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