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name: Gill James
about: Gill James writes novels for middle grade and young adults and short fiction for everyone. Her current work consists of a cycle of novels set mainly in Nazi Germany and of some texts of experimental fiction. She is published by Crooked Cats, Tabby Cat Press, The Red Telephone and Butterfly. She is an associate lecturer in Creative Writing at Salford University, UK, where she formerly worked as a senior lecturer. She has published several academic papers. Her stories are published on Litro, CafeLit, Alfie Dog, Ether Books and in several anthologies.She offers workshops on creative writing, book-building, creative writing in other languages and the Holocaust and life in Nazi Germany.Reviews by Gill can be found in Armadillo Magazine, IBBY, Tr Gill James writes novels for middle grade and young adults and short fiction for everyone. Her current work consists of a cycle of novels set mainly in Nazi Germany and of some texts of experimental fiction. She is published by Crooked Cats, Tabby Cat Press, The Red Telephone and Butterfly. She is an associate lecturer in Creative Writing at Salford University, UK, where she formerly worked as a senior lecturer. She has published several academic papers. Her stories are published on Litro, CafeLit, Alfie Dog, Ether Books and in several anthologies.She offers workshops on creative writing, book-building, creative writing in other languages and the Holocaust and life in Nazi Germany.Reviews by Gill can be found in Armadillo Magazine, IBBY, Troubador, GoodReads, Amazon and on her own web site. Member of the Society of Authors, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Literature Wales and the National Society of Writers in Education, Gill has an MA in Writing for Children and PhD in Creative and Critical WritingShe edits for Bridge House Publishing, CaféLit, Chapeltown Books and The Red Telephone. Before becoming a writer and an academic she taught modern languages for 23 years in various schools and has continued to make school visits as a writer of fiction for children and young adults. ...more