Before taking early retirement to become a full-time writer, Bill Kirton was a lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen.
His radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC and on the Australian BC. He has published three crime novels, Material Evidence, Rough Justice and The Darkness. Three of his short stories were selected for the CWA’s annual anthologies in 1999, 2005 and 2007. His novels have also appeared in paperback editions in the USA (in 2008 and 2009) as part of a series called ‘Bloody Brits’. The Figurehead, a historical crime novel set in Aberdeen in 1840, is due for publication as e-book and paperback in the summer of 2009.
Bill has also written and performed in revues at the Edinburgh Festival; written, directed and acted in stage and radio plays; and presented programmes on Grampian Television. He has been visiting artist at an American University on four different occasions, directing stage plays, giving classes on creative writing and theatre and translating three plays by Molière for public performance, one of which, a verse translation of Sganarelle, won a BCLA prize.
He was awarded one of the first of the Royal Literary Fund’s Writing Fellowships in Scotland and spent two years at the Robert Gordon University, two more at the University of Dundee and one at St Andrews. He co-wrote a chapter of Writing Matters, a report specially commissioned by the RLF to examine issues relating to literacy levels in Higher Education. He also co-wrote Just Write, a book aimed at helping students with their academic writing, which was published in 2006.
You'll find his blog at
www.livingwritingandotherstuff.blogspot.com
Visit Bill Kirton's personal website.
All Stories by Bill Kirton
› Love Hurts
› Stanley And Mildred
› Stanley And The Poem
› Stanley At Christmas
› Stanley In Love
› Stanley On Holiday
› Stanley's Pet
