Becky is a Leeds-based writer, performer, single mum and creative writing facilitator who writes in a variety of forms. She works regularly for various organisations including Workers Educational Association and the West Yorkshire Playhouse, is one of the facilitators for the Ilkley Literature Festival Young Writers Group and takes private pupils. Becky has performed her work and traditional tales and ballads both solo and with other artists live on radio and at venues such as Seven Arts, Stage @ Leeds, Stockton Riverside Festival and Poems, Prose and Pints. She was shortlisted for the 2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Award and the 2009-10 Fish Short Story Prize, and in 2006, received a commission to write and perform an interactive children’s story at The Rotunda Museum in Scarborough.
Becky is currently busy applying for funding for a one woman show ‘Yolk’, her first full length play, which she is hoping to tour next spring, seeking an agent for her first novel 'Yellow Brick Roads', and working hard on her second – when the cry of a new poem isn’t demanding her attention! If contemporary poetry is your thing, have a look at the fabulous website Peony Moon. Two of Becky’s poems ‘Wolves’ and ‘My Paisley Quilt’ are available there. Watch out for her poem ‘The Girl You Took Home More Than Once’, which is due to be published by Stairwell Books in an anthology on railways soon.
Find out more about what Becky is up to at her author page on Facebook
and her Myspace page/s here and here
If you are interested in working with Becky please call her on: 07792266816
email her at write@beckycherriman.com
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