Anon: Perspectives on J.M.Barrie

by Cally Phillips (Editor)

Barrie once wrote, 'to be born is to be wrecked on an island.' We, however, were born as a society at the Barrie Pavilion in Kirriemuir, on May 9th 2017 eighty years after Barrie's death.

Our international membership includes Barrie scholars, local enthusiasts, people who love to read and talk about books - and eat cake! Well aware of Barrie's own attitudes towards literary societies, we do not take ourselves too seriously, but we are united in a serious purpose.

Our goal is to bring Barrie out of the shadow of Peter Pan and look beyond this work, exploring and explaining how much more there is to Barrie's writing than this, his most famous creation. Barrie is not just, not even primarily, a writer for children and we hope to inspire more adults to engage with his fiction and drama.

This journal brings together articles from a wide range of Barrie scholars and aficianados.

88 pages, Paperback

Published May 9, 2018

About the author

My writing career has 'downshifted' from screen to stage to page over 20 years. And now it focuses on digital. I'm in the process of publishing my back catalogue of stage plays as well as working on novels and 'advocacy' pieces. I write short stories regularly for McStorytellers, I have been editor of the Indie eBook Review and now review for Reading Between the Lines. I'm director of the Edinburgh eBook Festival and if that's not enough I'm working for a couple of Publishers - HoAmPresst, Guerrilla Midgie and Ayton Press, all of them with different niches. Spare time - hobbies? You've got to be joking. Between reading, writing and publishing there is no spare time. And I wouldn't have it any other way.