Rosie Lugosi (Aka Garland)
BIOGRAPHY
Rosie Lugosi has been tantalising audiences with her unique blend of poetic perversion, humour, mayhem and song for seven years. She has performed at events as diverse as The Cheltenham Literature Festival and Stockholm Gay Pride.
Rosie has an eclectic writing and performance history, ranging from singing in 80s Goth band The March Violets, to her current incarnation as Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen, electrifying performance poet. As well as three solo collections of poetry (Hell and Eden, Coming Out At Night and Creatures of the Night), her award-winning short stories, poems and essays have been widely anthologised. Mapping the Interior, her first novel, is currently with an agent. She has won the Diva Award for Solo Performer, and in 2006 was voted Poetry Kit’s Poet of the Year.
WEBSITE
rosielugosie.com
GENRE
Poetry And Fiction.
PUBLICATIONS | PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Fiction Anthologies - short stories
- 2006 My Dear, Bitch Lit, (Crocus Books)
- 2005 Helter Skelter, Flick Lit (SM Dykes Manchester Press)
- 2004 A Piece of her Night, Va Va Voom (Millivres Press)
- 2003 Terminus, Necrologue (Diva Books)
- 2002 The Purple Wallpaper, Groundswell (Diva Books)
- 2002 file>>corrupted, City Secrets (Crocus Press)
- 2001 Here Be Tygers, Cadenza (QWF)
- 2000 You’ll Do, The Diva Book of Short Stories (Diva Books)
- 1999 The Bones of Venice, In Blood we Trust (Dark Angel Press)
- 1997 Tears for Souvenirs, Queer Words (Premiere Cymru)
Poetry (solo collections)
- 2003 Creatures of the Night (purpleprosepress)
- 2000 Coming out at Night (purpleprosepress)
- 1997 Hell and Eden (Dagger Press)
Festival appearances
- 2006 Manchester Literature Festival
- 2006 Liverpool Comedy Festival
- 2006 Queer Up North, Manchester
- 2006 Wigan and Leigh Words
- 2005 Homotopia, Liverpool
- 2005 Manchester Poetry Festival
- 2005 Ilkley Literature Festival
- 2005 DaDaFest, Liverpool
- 2005 Queer Up North, Manchester
- 2005 Stockholm Pride
- 2004 Swindon Literature Festival
- 2004 Glasgay, Glasgow
- 2004 Cheltenham Festival of Literature
- 2004 Manchester Pride
- 2004 Brighton Pride
- 2003 ProudWords, Newcastle on Tyne
- 2003 Swindon Literature Festival
- 2003 Ledbury Poetry Festival
- 2003 North East Lincolnshire LitFest
- 2003 Cheltenham Festival of Literature
- 2003 Manchester Poetry Festival
- 2003 Glasgay, Glasgow
- 2003 Manchester Comedy Festival
- 2003 Ladyfest, Manchester
- 2003 Europride, Manchester
- 2003 Pride on Tyne
- 2003 The Great Labor Arts Exchange, Washington DC
- 2003 FWWCP FedFest, Sheffield
- 2002 Libertas! Festival of Lesbian Literature, York
- 2002 Manchester Poetry Festival
- 2002 Cheltenham Festival of Literature
- 2002 Writing on the Wall Festival, Liverpool
- 2001 ProudWords, Newcastle on Tyne
- 2001 Manchester Poetry Festival
- 2000 FWWCP FedFest, Leicester
- 2000 ProudWords, Newcastle on Tyne
- 2000 Buxton Festival, Buxton
WORKSHOP | READINGS EXPERIENCE","REFERENCE/S
I am a workshop facilitator of many years’ experience, and have run successful workshops for organisations as diverse as: Survivors’ Poetry, Manchester Rape Crisis, the FWWCP (The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers), The Great Labor Arts Exchange (Washington DC), ProudWords (Newcastle), the Young Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Peer Support Project (Manchester), and Sounding Out, (Leicester).
REFERENCE/S
Libby TempestCultural Services Manager
Manchester Library & Information Services
Central Library
St’ Peters Square
Manchester
M2 5PD
telephone: 0161 2341981
Wendy Molyneux
Community Access Librarian
Warrington Borough Council
Community Services Directorate
Leisure, Culture and Heritage
Warrington Library
Museum St., Warrington
Tel: 01925 442732
Mobile: 07730 075 966
Fax: 01925 443257
GROUP SIZE PREFERENCE
W/shop:16Reading:any
GROUP AGE PREFERENCE
16 years and up
WORKING LANGUAGE/S
English
AREA/S PREPARED TO TRAVEL
Anywhere; UK, Europe, Worldwide.
OTHER INFORMATION
press and publicity quotes:
’Hugely entertaining, tough-talking . a celebration of female sexuality, of power and liberation.’
Carol Ann Duffy
’A national treasure.’
Dead Good Poets Society, Liverpool
’Rosie Lugosi started our series of performance poetry workshops with a fantastic workshop where people explored ways to bring poetry to life for an audience. Everyone was buzzing with enthusiasm afterwards and dying to get on a stage.’
Apples and Snakes
’The highlight of the show was Rosie Lugosi, a vampire queen fully decked out in leather, corset and whip, whose verses ranged from the banality of being a teenager in Devon to her Rottweiller, anger and Motorhead. Hilarious, original and refreshing.’
Swindon Evening Advertiser
’Performance artist of the year.’
The Daily Telegraph
’Thanks so much, Rosie, for coming to speak to my class. What a wonderful vision of life you can offer them as a possibility!’
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Lecturer in Queer Studies, Syracuse University New York
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