Peter Kalu
BIOGRAPHY
Pete Kalu is well known on the North West writing scene and beyond, as a novelist, storyteller, poet, and playwright. He started writing as a member of the Moss Side Write black writers workshop. Recent writing prizes include: Pants, (Winner, BBC/Contact Theatre Dangerous Comedy Award 2003), Hills Trees Green Stuff, (winner, Bradford and Cumbria Playscript competitions 2003), No Trace, (Winner, Black Film Festival Award 2000). He has had five novels published to date, one poetry collection and has visited approx 100 schools in the last five years as a storyteller, as ell as umpteen libraries and youth centres.
WEBSITE
GENRE
Novelist, Storyteller, Poet
PUBLICATIONS | PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Novels:
Yard Dogs (thriller) The X Press 2002
Diary of a househusband (comedy) The X Press 1998
Black Star Rising (scifi) publication date: The X Press June 1998
Professor X ( thriller) published by The X Press , October 1995.
Lick Shot ( thriller) published by The X Press , December 1993.
Theatre plays:
Hills, Trees, Green Stuff, Cumbria 2004
Pant, Contact Theatre, Manchester 2003
Downfall, performed at Manchester University Theatre, Manchester 1995.
Taxi, performed at Manchester Town Hall 1994.
Radio plays:
Xango’s Challenge broadcast by BBC Radio 3, August 12th 1995
Afrogoth, launched BBC Radio 4’s Young Playwrights Festival 1991
Poetry:
Mongrel Moon collected works, published by Mongrel Press, November 1996
Poetry also anthologised in KISS Crocus 1994
Burning Words, Flaming Images SAKS Media 1996 and broadcast, postered, exhibited, throughout the UK
Some Qualifications / Prizes / Awards:
Poem For Manchester Shortlist 2004
Winner Cumbria Play Programme 2004
Winner, Dangerous Comedy Award 2003
Winner, Bradford International Short Play 2002
Liverpool Black Film Festival Award 2002
New Horizons Award 1995
BBC Young Playwrights Festival 1991
WORKSHOP | READINGS EXPERIENCE","REFERENCE/S
Airwaves:
BBC Radio 3
BBC Television North West
BBC Radio GMR
Radio Bristol
Radio Leeds
BBC Business Daily (continues)
Venues:
Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
Bradford Mela/Literature Festival, Bradford
Harlseden Library, Hackney, London
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Green Room, Manchester
Black Resource Centre, Manchester
West Indian Centre Manchester
Toxteth Library, Liverpool
Mandela Centre, Leeds
West Indian Centre, Leeds
Henry Moore Gallery, Leeds
Salford PumpHouse, Salford
Oldham Civic Centre, Oldham
Carvaneadab mushaira, Oldham
Sadaaca Centre, Sheffield ...(continues: approx 240 since 1996)
Residencies:
Guest writer, Arvon Foundation, Lumb Bank 1994
Guest writer, Arvon Foundation, Totleigh Barton, 1995
Manchester Schools Residency (via BAA) 1993
Time Travellers, Roman History In Action, Hull 1992
Journalism:
Leeds West Indian Carnival Magazine 1990
Editor, Black Arts Magazine, Leeds, 19871990
REFERENCE/S
N/A
GROUP SIZE PREFERENCE
N/A
GROUP AGE PREFERENCE
N/A
WORKING LANGUAGE/S
N/A
AREA/S PREPARED TO TRAVEL
N/A
Librarians in the North West have pioneered partnership working to encourage new readers into libraries. Time To Read is a partnership of librarians engaged in reader development activity in public library authorities in the North West Region. All 23 public library authorities in the region currently support Time To Read.