Jeff Phelps - Talk and Book Signing

Written by Glynis Madden Wednesday, 11 August 2010

At Bridgnorth Library
(Listley Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4AW)
6 p.m. Thursday 2nd September 2010

Jeff Phelps has lived in Bridgnorth for over twenty years. His stories and poetry have been widely published, notably in London Magazine and Critical Quarterly. In 1991 he was overall winner of the Mail on Sunday Novel Competition. Fay Weldon described his entry as ‘an intensely attractive piece of writing.’

In 2000 he won second prize in the Stand Open Poetry Competition with his poem about the Severn in Bridgnorth, River Passage. It was published as a booklet in 2002 with illustrations by Jayne Gaze and produced as a CD with piano music by Dan Phelps in 2010 as one of the first productions by Offa’s Press. Jeff was founding editor, with the poet Roger Pearson, of the literary magazine, Nutshell and founded and still helps to run the flourishing Bridgnorth Writers’ Group.

Jeff’s two novels, Painter Man and Box of Tricks were published by Tindal Street Press in 2005 and 2009 respectively. His play, Sea View, written with Nick Daws was staged in January 2010 in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

He will be appearing at Bridgnorth Library on Thursday 2nd September from 6pm, when he will be reading from his poems and stories and chatting about all things to do with reading and writing – from inspiration to publication.

www.jeffphelps.co.uk for more information.