Tom Murray Writer

(BREAKING BREAKING NEWS!: The residency in Clackmannanshire has been extended for another year till April 2009.)

Tom Murray is a full time writer based in the Scottish Borders.  

He is a playwright, fiction writer and poet. His plays have been performed and read at various venues in the UK.  His stories and poems have been widely published in the UK, also published in Canada and the USA. 

 

He is currently co Writer in Residence to Clackmannanshire Council.  See links page for residency webpage.

 

He was Writer in Residence to Peebles High School 2006--2007.  Also Writer in Residence to Galashiels Academy 2005-6.

 

Monologue performed as part of ' I Confess' at the Arches Theatre Glasgow 2005. Currently Co editor of the Eildon Tree Magazine. Lecturer in Creative Writing. Commended ‘Alpha to Omega’ Novel competition 2000. Co winner of the Fish one page story prize 2005.

 

He is on the council of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, and is treasurer of the Borders Writers Forum.

 

Available for workshops, readings and talks on poetry, prose and drama. Experienced in working with writers groups and in schools. Happy to travel.

 

Email: Tmurraytg@aol.com

 

Later I plan to add more poems, as well as plays, stories and information that hopefully will encourage you to take a break from this remote control, million miles an hour world and pause, (and comment) on the work.

Watch this space!!