Wilson, Jim C. (1948–) Művek   hu en

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Jim C. Wilson was born in Edinburgh in 1948, and now lives in Gullane. He studied English at Edinburgh University, and taught for nine years at Telford College. He started writing seriously in his thirties, and was Writer in Residence for Stirling District (1989-1991) and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow since 2001. He has run ‘Poetry in Practice’ sessions at Edinburgh University since 1994.

His poems have been widely published for over twenty years, in Chapman, The Herald, New Writing Scotland, and Orbis, and he has won several competitions, including the Scottish International and Hugh MacDiarmid Trophy. His first poetry collection was The Loutra Hotel (Making Waves, 1988), followed by Cellos In Hell (Chapman, 1993) and Paper Run (Mariscat, 2007).

Jim Wilson’s prose works include The Happy Land (Ramsay Head Press, 1991) which was adapted and broadcast on Radio Scotland. Kettillonia published his childhood reminiscences, Spalebone Days (2002). Wilson once had a passion for writing letters to The Scotsman newspaper. He had 218 published - then lost interest. He is a member of Edinburgh’s Shore Poets, who have been running monthly poetry events for some 13 years. He is also a member of Scottish PEN and the British Haiku Society.

http://www.jimcwilson.com/

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