Mr Michael StewartM.Stewart@hud.ac.uk | 01484 471883
Michael Stewart is a multi-award winning writer, born and brought up in Salford, who moved to Yorkshire in 1995 and is now based in Bradford. He has written several full length stage plays, one of which, Karry Owky, was joint winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing, as well as securing work in radio and television.
He was the winner of the BBC Alfred Bradley Award in 2003 and his plays have been performed in Bradford, Leeds, Manchester, London, and extensively throughout the country. His BBC Radio 4 play Excluded was shortlisted for the Imison Award 2008. His latest BBC Radio 4 play Castaway was broadcast in February 2010.
He was writer in residence at Theatre in the Mill in Bradford, and is now senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, where he is the director of the Huddersfield Literature Festival and the editor of Grist Books. He is also the founding member of Dark and Dirty – an arts initiative funded by the Arts Council, set up to explore the hinterland of narrative art.
His fiction has been published widely in anthologies and magazines, including Route, Leaf Books, Brand Magazine and Aesthetica. His debut novel, King Crow, was published in January 2011 by Bluemoose Books.
In teaching creative writing, it is sometimes asserted that there are a set of principles which are objective tools for constructing and evaluating satisfying narratives. 'Taste ' is subjective and has no place in this way of examining story.
But is 'taste ' always a moral response and/or an aesthetic one? And how does the atomised nature of modern social structures impinge on the narratives we construct and engage with?
Stewart, M (2013) ‘This Is Where You Get Off’ Iota Magazine (91).
Stewart, M (2012) ‘Point of View: a conclusion’ Leaf Writer's Magazine (6). ISSN 2043-8850
Stewart, M (2012) A Complicated Way of Being Ignored . : Grist Books . ISBN 978-0956309921
Stewart, M (2012) Castaway [Audio]
Stewart, M (2012) ‘Point of View: second person, why are you are reading this?’ Leaf Writer's Magazine (5). ISSN 2043-8850
Stewart, M (2012) ‘Couples’ Albatross Magazine . ISSN 2042-5406
Stewart, M (2012) ‘From Object to Subject’ Albatross Magazine . ISSN 2042-5406
Stewart, M (2011) ‘Clean’. In: Not Only the Dark: 160 Poems on the Theme of Survival. : Categorical Books. . ISBN 978-1904662150
Stewart, M (2011) Outside the Asylum . : Grist Books . ISBN 978-0956309914
Stewart, M (2011) ‘Point of View: first person, the problem and power of partiality’’ Leaf Writer's Magazine (4). ISSN 2043-8850
Stewart, M (2011) ‘Point of View: third person, a default setting?’ Leaf Writer's Magazine (3). ISSN 2043-8850
Stewart, M (2011) King Crow . Hebden Bridge: Bluemoose Books . ISBN 9780956687616
Stewart, M (2011) ‘The Bald Men’ Tears in the Fence (49). ISSN 0266-5816
Stewart, M (2011) ‘You Are Going Back’ Tears in the Fence (48). ISSN 0266 5816
Stewart, M (2010) ‘Story Without Meaning’. In: We're Crème de la Crem. : Biscuit Publishing. . ISBN 978-1-903914-44-1
Stewart, M (2010) ‘Point of View: the perils and pitfalls’ Leaf Writer's Magazine (2). ISSN 2043-8850
Stewart, M (2009) ‘Monkeys’ Brand Magazine (4). ISSN 1754-0593
Stewart, M (2009) The Grist Anthology of New Writing . : Grist Books . ISBN 978-0956309907
Stewart, M (2009) ‘The phone call’ Aesthetica Creative Works Annual 2009 . ISSN 1758-9932
Stewart, M (2008) Everyone Remembers Where They Were . : Wellhouse Publications . ISBN 0954782259
Stewart, M (2008) A Homecoming . : Wellhouse Publications . ISBN 0954782259
Stewart, M (2008) A Small Boy . : Wellhouse Publications . ISBN 0954782259
Gill, D. and Stewart, M. (2008) The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialising, Fadism and Commonism . : PDG Books . ISBN 9781905519040
Stewart, M (2008) ‘He Was Going Out’. In: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialising, Fadism and Commonism. Leeds: PDG Books. . ISBN 9781905519040
Stewart, M (2007) ‘This Enchanted Isle’ Aesthetica Magazine (15). ISSN 1743-2715
Stewart, M (2007) ‘Third Person’. In: The Light That Remains and Other Stories. : Leaf Books. . ISBN 9781905599349
Stewart, M (2007) The Cleaners. n/a (Submitted).
Stewart, M (2007) Excluded [Audio]
Stewart, M (2007) ‘A Better Devil’ Brand literary magazine (1). ISSN 1754-0593
Stewart, M (2006) ‘A Turner for our Time’ Aesthetica Magazine (12). ISSN 1743-2715
Stewart, M (2004) ‘A Dog in a Bag’. In: Naked City. : Route Online. . ISBN 978-1901927238
Stewart, M (2002) Bambiha. n/a (Submitted).
Stewart, M (2001) Karry Owky. n/a (Submitted).
Stewart, M (2000) ‘Bath’ HQ Poetry Magazine (23/24). ISSN 0960 3638
Stewart, M (2000) ‘Shark’ HQ Poetry Magazine (23/24). ISSN 0960 3638
Stewart, M (2000) ‘The Unnamable Mirror: The Reflective Identity in Beckett's Prose’. In: Poetry and Other Prose. : Rodopi. . ISBN 978-90-420-0700-0
