Julie Egdell has an MA in Creative Writing (with distinction) and a BA in Literature from Teesside University. She has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, Mexico and France including Dreamcatcher, The French Literary Review, The Cadaverine, The Black Light Engine Room and Kenaz. Her work appears in the Bloodaxe anthology “Hallelujah for 50ft Women” and “The Wilds Anthology”, “The Break-Out Anthology” and “Through the Cracks” published by Ek Zuban. She also features in the Dark Matter 4 chapbook published by Black Light Engine Room Press. She won the “Best Newcomer” award at the 2013 Read Our Lips Filmpoem Competition. She has performed at T-Junction Festival, Take Ten, Pink Lane, The Stanza, Electric Kool-aid Cabaret and The Royal Festival Hall, London. Her debut collection “Alice in Winterland” is forthcoming from Smokestack. “Alice in Winterland” is a modern retelling of Alice in Wonderland set in St Petersburg, written after spending a year teaching English there.
What Between Stations means to me
A Poet Mentee's View
During the mentoring project I hope to develop my performance skills to a stage where I can perform longer pieces confidently, using voice, gesture and dramatic technique. I have been mentored successfully by Andy before as a writer with the help of a Northern Cultural Partnerships grant and now I hope to learn more about performance of text with multimedia and music from him and am very pleased that we are able to work together again on this project. I hope the experience of shadowing the “Between Stations” spoken word show and performing in live support slots will allow me to visualise and develop a show for my debut collection “Alice in Winterland” which will be published in 2017 by Smokestack books. The experience of collaborating with musicians and filmmakers will be particularly valuable as I hope to use this experience when developing my own show about my own time in a “Between Stations” state of mind in Russia. Perhaps most significantly the project will introduce me to Finnish poetry culture, allow me to gain valuable insight into different writing and performance styles and establish contacts internationally.