Carole Morin

Carole Morin

Carole Morin

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Available for

Workshop, Talk, Reading, Interview

Audiences

Age 16 to 18+, Further Education, University, Adult

Genres

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fiction, Fiction narrative, Humour, Narrative non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, Science fiction, Suspense-thriller

Book types

Fiction for adults

Awards

  • Literary Fellow, UEA
  • Winner Stand Short Story Competition
  • Winner Bridport Short Story Competition
  • Hawthornden Fellow
  • Scottish Arts Council Book Award
  • Authors Foundation award

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Details

Carole Morin was Associate Editor of Granta magazine, writer-in-residence in HMP Wormwood Scrubs and Literary Fellow at University of East Anglia where she devised and taught her own course, Autobiography as Fiction; later adapted for the British Council in Africa and China.  She has done readings on radio, television and stage and recorded an audio book.

 

Talks:

How to get published: tips including what not to do.

 

Readings:

I’ve done sold-out readings at venues as diverse as Polari, Castlemilk Library (largest council estate in Europe), Southbank Centre, Durham Cathedral, Radio 4, Soho Radio, Martinez, Glasgow University Literary Society, Edinburgh Festival, Beijing Bookworm and Wormwood Scrubs prison. 

I love doing readings and have recorded an audio book of my novel Spying on Strange Men which is on Apple music and Spotify.  When I was Associate Editor of Granta magazine I noticed a surprising number of writers drone when they read, even very experienced writers who have great voices in conversation somehow manage to read their own work badly.  I learned how to "impersonate myself" so my readings sound natural; even though they are always rehearsed.  I read in character and stick strictly to the prescribed length.

 

Workshops include:

When I was Literary Fellow at UEA I devised and taught my own course Autobiography as Fiction which my students described as "life-changing".  This series of exercises was designed to sharpen skills to the convert raw material that everyone has into fiction. It was later adapted for the British Council in Africa and China and as one-off workshops.  I've also done workshops at Arvon Foundation, libraries and literary societies. 

I am able to adapt to having writers of different ability in the same group.  I was writer-in-residence at HMP Wormwood Scrubs where participants ranged from illiterate to open university students. 

 

Some examples of one-off workshops:

Character, Setting, Plot:

Where are you?

Who are you?

What's happening?

 

Interviews:

Experienced interviewer and being interviewed on radio, television and print.  Available for In Conversations.

 

From Wikipedia:

Carole Morin was born in Glasgow. At 16 she became a 'Junior Diplomat' to the United States. She was Literary Fellow at the University of East Anglia. She was Associate Editor of Granta magazine and writer-in-residence at prison. She has had weekly columns in both the right of centre The Spectator and left of centre New Statesman; according to The Scotsman she is the only novelist to achieve this. She has contributed to the Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Scotsman and The Herald.  She has lived in Kampala and Beijing and now lives in London.

 

Fees: as per Society of Authors recommendations

 

"Fleshworld is a dark, transgressive novel shot through with disturbing sexual imagery.“  The Herald

"Fleshworld is psychopomp: a funfair slide through Clockwork Orange’s purgatorial milk bar into the seminal experimentations of Michael Moorcock..." The Times

"Fleshworld is a compelling and elegantly-crafted novel." The Scotsman

Books by Carole Morin

Carole Morin is a Glasgow-born novelist who lives in Soho, London. She has had five critically-acclaimed novels published including screen-optioned Dead Glamorous, Spying on Strange Men and Fleshworld. "Fleshworld is a dark, transgressive novel shot through with disturbing sexual imagery.“  The Herald "Fleshworld is psychopomp: a funfair slide through Clockwork Orange’s purgatorial milk bar into the seminal experimentations of Michael Moorcock..." The Times "Fleshworld is a compelling and elegantly-crafted novel." The Scotsman
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Fleshworld

Fleshworld

Threatened by a killer virus, the city formerly known as London splits into two zones. On one side the safe bubble of Pure World; on the other the perils of Fleshworld. When Rich’s perfect wife disappears, he has to cross to the dark side to save her. Time is running out. Has she already been soiled forever? "Fleshworld is a dark, transgressive novel shot through with disturbing sexual imagery." The Herald "Fleshworld is psychopomp: a funfair slide through Clockwork Orange’s purgatorial milk bar into the seminal experimentations of Michael Moorcock..." The Times "Fleshworld is a compelling and elegantly-crafted novel." The Scotsman  
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Spying on Strange Men

Spying on Strange Men

Spying on Strange Men ("Strange, brilliant, unique voice") is a twisted love triangle about artist Vivien Lash, who spends her time gleefully tracking her 'installation', which is what she calls her 'creepy neighbour'. Jackie McGlone in the Scotsman describes it as "Double Indemnity without the insurance policy, a love story gone very, very wrong". Richard Godwin describes the book as 'a compelling, unsettling Noir novel written in sharp, elegant prose with scenes that move between surreal humour and a sudden darkness.' He goes on to praise 'Morin's ability to write characters whose identities are partly self-fiction or who are on the verge of psychosis'. 

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