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Kevan Manwaring

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Born

in Delapre, The United Kingdom

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https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Eco Literature

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Kevan Manwaring is a prize-winning writer & lecturer in creative writing who lives on the ancient downs of Wiltshire. He is the author of over twenty books including The Windsmith Elegy series of Mythic Reality novels; Desiring Dragons, Oxfordshire Folk Tales, Northamptonshire Folk Tales, The Bardic Handbook, and Ballad Tales (ed.). He loves walking in other worlds, but sometimes he prefers to ride his Triumph motorbike.

Winner of the One Giant Write SF Novel Competition

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Average rating: 3.74 · 241 ratings · 54 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors

	Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes 3.62 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bardic Handbook: The Complete Manual for the Twenty-First Century Bard 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Woman 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oxfordshire Folk Tales 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ballad Tales: an anthology of British Ballads retold 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Way of Awen 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Northamptonshire Folk Tales 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desiring Dragons: Creativity, Imagination and the Writer's Quest 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Knowing 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speak Like Rain: Letters to a Young Bard 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Image: Performing ‘Mary Shelley Unbound’ – a Bournemouth Writing Festival commission on Mary Shelley’s birthday, St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, August 30th 2024.

It has been a very busy and productive year. It is one of the weird things about age: I seem to get busier, not less! The year has not been without its challenges – it would be a falsehood to claim otherwise. It is harder and harder t

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Dec 22, 2013 09:56AM

On Desiring Dragons, forthcoming from Kevan Manwaring:

‘Because Kevan Manwaring is a writer who loves and has travelled widely in the realms of fantasy fiction, his book is a trustworthy guide to the challenges, opportunities and enchantments that an adventurous imagination can discover there.’
Lindsay Clarke, author of The Chymical Wedding (winner of the Whitbread-prize for fiction)

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