Fire: New Writing Ii

by Tyler Keevil, Johnston Keevil (Contributor)

An Anthology of Prose and Poetry from the Creative Writing Programme at the University of Gloucestershire, featuring new writing from Hayley Barnes, Chloe Biggs, Joshua Blackburn, Hayley Bourne, Lauren Brigden, Bill Clark, Emily Coffin, Jane Durston, Becca Edwards, Katie Farmer, Leah Fraser, Victoria Green, Charl Harrison, Ashley Hartridge, Cat Haycock, A.J. Hunter, Esther Kayes, Rachel Kelby, Sam Kemp, Samuel C. Last, Jess Lawrence, Amanda Legal, Adam Magee, Hannah Meads, Stef Nasskau, Keely O'Shaughnessy, Matt Paul, Megan Paul, Julie Pitt, Emma Potter, Alice Robinson, Ben Saugman, Jess Searle, Danielle Schlosser, Emmy Summers, Hugh Thomas, and Naomi Wilson. Edited by D.D. Johnston, Tyler Keevil, & Lucy Tyler

192 pages, Paperback

Published December 24, 2013

About the author

Tyler was raised in Vancouver, Canada. He first came to the UK in 1999 to study English at Lancaster University. He returned home to finish his degree, and after graduating undertook a variety of bizarre jobs, working as a treeplanter, a landscape gardener, a deckhand on a fishing barge, a ‘greenhorn’ in the shipyards, a restaurant busser and a kayak shop assistant. After paying back his student loan, and saving up some money, he moved to Prague to try his hand at being a starving writer – the only problem being that he didn’t know how to write yet. The money ran out before he learned, and after a brief stint living in Birmingham, he moved to Wales in 2003.

While working part-time cleaning toilets at a petrol station, Tyler committed to learning the craft, and after picking up a handful of short fiction awards – including a Writer of the Year Award from Writers Inc. of London – he began selling his stories to magazines. He is interested both in literary and slipstream fiction, and has been published in New Welsh Review, Planet, Transmission, Dream Catcher, Black Static, and On Spec, among others. A translation of his story, ‘Masque of the Red Clown’ has also recently been commissioned by the French-Canadian magazine, Solaris. Tyler has also written for the screen; a short film he wrote recently aired on ITV Wales, whilst another picked up the Welsh Dragon Award at the Newport International Film Festival. Welsh editors have always been supportive of his writing, from Arthur Smith to Dafydd Prys to Francesca Rhydderch to Helle Michelson, and now more recently Lucy Llewellyn at Parthian.

Like most Canadians, Tyler enjoys his winter sports, including hockey and snowboarding, but since coming to Wales he has discovered the wonders of hiking and camping – particular along the Pembrokeshire coast. He currently works part-time in a factory near his hometown of Llanidloes, and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire.