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Janet Dean Knight

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Janet Dean Knight is from Barnsley and lives in York. Her debut novel The Peacemaker was longlisted in the Mslexia Novel Competition 2017 and published in March 2019 by Top Hat Books.

As Janet Dean, her poetry has most recently appeared in The Anthology of Yorkshire Poetry by Valley Press and The York Literary Review, the National Poetry Library’s digital collection Poem of the North, and in Strix #6. She is a member of York Stanza, and of Script Yorkshire where she has been selected for Page to Stage and has been a finalist in Script Factor York.

Janet has delivered solo and collaborative events in the fringe and main programme of York Literature Festival for four years, 2016-2019.

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Janet Dean Knight This year I read Milkman by Anna Burns, which I found challenging but ultimately a really atmospheric absorbing read. I read Kate Atkinson's Transcrip…moreThis year I read Milkman by Anna Burns, which I found challenging but ultimately a really atmospheric absorbing read. I read Kate Atkinson's Transcription which wasn't one of my favourites of hers but interesting and skillfully done. I read Jackie Skingley's forthcoming memoir about her life as a WRAC in the 1960s which is due out in early December and is called High Heels and Beetle Crushers. Jackie is a participant from the writing courses I co-run in France, so I was pleased to read and review her book. It's a great read full of period detail and helpful for me as my next book is set in the 1960s. I've also read the first 3 books in Sophie Hannah's Culver Valley Crime series. I started Sophie's brilliant Dream Author Programme a few months ago so wanted to find out what kind of writer she is, and she's great!(less)
Janet Dean Knight I wait. Read. Write anything. Try poetry if I'm working on a novel, or a play. I teach writing on courses, so I have a lot of writing exercises to dra…moreI wait. Read. Write anything. Try poetry if I'm working on a novel, or a play. I teach writing on courses, so I have a lot of writing exercises to draw on and sometimes I use them on myself. But actually the only thing to do is write, if it's rubbish, start again, but there's usually something retreivable in everything you do.(less)
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Age Is A Work Of Art

I have many pictures of my daughter and myself and I love them all, but they really do remind me how old I am! In the month that I reached 65 (but without the consolation of my state pension), I am comforted by the words of Polish poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. I intend to see …

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