Jeremy Worman
Jeremy Worman
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Jeremy Worman has dropped out in Wales and squatted in London. He also participated in performance-art events with the sculptor Paul David Wright (Gold medal for Sculpture, RCA, 1972, who for many years was part of the design team for the Pink Floyd stage shows).  Jeremy eventually received some excellent education at Birkbeck College, London University, where he gained a First Class degree in English and was twice awarded the biennial 'John Hay Lobban Prize for The Most Promising Student of English Literature'.   He also has a Master of Letters degree from Cambridge University where Professor Gillian Beer was his supervisor.   He has taught at Cambridge University, London University, and the University of Roehampton.

He has reviewed for The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, the New Statesman, The Tablet and many other publications.   His short stories and poems have been published widely.  He won the Waterstones/BBC Radio Manchester short story prize (2002) and was broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester; he won the 2009 Cinnamon Press Short Story Competition.  His second collection of short stories Swimming with Diana Dors and Other Stories will be published by Cinnnamon Press in April 2014.  A crime novel, Entanglement, is with his literary agent Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson.  He teaches English Literature to American B.A. students at Birkbeck.




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