Newcastle University

Introduction

Royal Literary Fund Website: www.rlf.co.uk

Ann is available for one-to-one consultations on any aspect of academic writing. All consultations are confidential and Ann is not involved in the marking/assessment process. Students can get help with punctuation, grammar or syntax to help improve the overall clarity of their writing. Ann is also able to offer help with planning, formulating an argument, essay structure – anything, in fact, to do with essay writing.

Office days are Mondays and Tuesdays. To book a consultation, please email Ann.Coburn@ncl.ac.uk.

Background

Ann Coburn is a children’s novelist who also writes for the theatre. Her fiction includes Glint, a novel for older readers which won an Arts Council Writer’s Award and a Northern Writer’s Award; and Dream Team, an ongoing series for younger readers. Her theatre plays include: Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, winner of the John Whiting Award; The Devil’s Ground, winner of a C.P.Taylor Bursary; and, for children, Alex and the Warrior and sequel Alex and the Winter Star. Her children’s books are published by HarperCollins, Heinemann, Random House and Walker Books. Her plays are published by Oberon Books.

Ann has been giving talks, undertaking residencies and tutoring creative writing since her first novel was published in 1991. Recent projects include summer schools for 11-18 year olds (2006 Orange Young Writers’ Festival) and schools’ workshops for the 2007 Hexham Book Festival. In 2006/7 she was a regular speaker in the ‘Read to Inspire’ conference series and she tutored Theatre Writing Masterclasses as part of InterACT, the northern region’s Theatre Training Ensemble. Residencies include a year with Seven Stories, the Centre for Children’s Books; and a ‘Museum of My Life’ residency for New Writing North.