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Julia Darling is a fiction writer, a poet and a playwright. Her first novel `Crocodile Soup' will be published this September by Transworld, and her collection of short stories "Bloodlines' is soon to be reprinted by the same publishers. Her most recent play, Eating The Elephant, based on her own experience of breast cancer, will be touring this October and she is currently writing four short stories for Radio Four about people who work up high in the air.
Julia Darling has worked as a writer in schools, communities and with women and health groups. She has also worked with housebound writers, with the mentally ill, and with the elderly. For some time she has collaborated with photographer Sharon Bailey, initially on a book about life in old people's homes, based on six months of visits to two homes in Gateshead. This project was later developed into a Radio Four Documentary "Home Truths." With the same photographer she is working on a project making posters for buses based on `trips out' with residents from Cauldwell House in Monkseaton. She is also about to work, again with Sharon, on an exhibition of lightboxes and recorded text based on different women's experiences of breast cancer, following a series of visits to various women's groups in the U.K. This will tour with Eating The Elephant.
This Spring she is going on a writing trip to the Banff Centre for The Arts,
where she is concentrating on her second novel.
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