Welcome to my home page.
More details can be found at http://www.deborahswift.webs.com
I blog at http://www.deborahswift.blogspot.com
I live and work in Windermere in Cumbria. I have an MA in Creative writing from Lancaster University.I am self employed as a Theatre Artist/Lecturer and in the evenings teach various creative arts including Creative Writing.
Here you will find details of my work as a novelist, a poet and a creative writing teacher.
Fiction
Click on "works" for details of
"The Lady's Slipper"
(shortlisted for the Impress Prize for Fiction 2007) due to be published by Macmillan New Writing in 2009
"The Eye of the Beholder"
Poems
One of my poems, "Sit Upright" has just been published in Anon, which has recently been re-launched.
I have been published by flaxbooks as a poet in their anthology "Fingerprints and other Traces" which is available to download free from www.litfest.org.uk. (Lancashire's Literary Festival website) I enjoy live performances and readings and you can hear me reading "Boots on the Moon" on their website.