Carl Tighe

Carl Tighe
Born (1950-04-26) 26 April 1950
Handsworth, Birmingham
Occupation Poet, essayist, and novelist
Language English
Nationality Irish/British
Alma mater University of Wales, Swansea
Notable works Burning Worm (2001) Shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Awards
Notable awards Authors' Club First Novel Award

Carl Tighe (born 26 April 1950) is a British writer, essayist, novelist, and poet.

Biography

Carl Tighe was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, his father had emigrated from Ireland just before World War II and his mother was English.[1]

He started writing poems and short stories as a teenager and this led to him applying to study English Literature at Swansea University where he graduated in 1973. On graduation, he found it difficult to get work and did odd jobs like gutting and cleaning fish and lavatory attendant to get him by. During this time he got an offer to teach English in Poland and went to Wrocław and Gdańsk for two years. During 1980-81, he taught at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and helped monitor foreign radio for Solidarność. Upon returning from Poland, he moved to Cardiff and started freelance writing. He wrote plays for community theater and articles for magazines to earn a living. He left Wales in 1988 to teach for the extramural department at Manchester University.[2][3]

He was professor of creative writing at the Derby University.[4][5]

Writing career and success

By the late 1990s he had written numerous plays and books. He had written for BBC Radio 4, Ambit, and many of his essays had appeared in the Journal of European Studies. His first book of short stories “Rejoice” was shortlisted for the Irish Times fiction award and he won the All-London Drama Award, 1988 for “A Whisper in the Wind.[6][7]

Though he had been writing for sometime publishing a novel eluded him. After sending his novel, based on his time in Poland, to countless publishers and getting continuous rejections Tighe didn’t think his novel would ever hit the shelves. He had almost lost hope but then a small independent press published the novel which went on to earn nominations and awards. The novel, “Burning Worm,” was shortlisted for Whitbread Award, 2002 and won Authors’ Club Award, 2002.[8][9]

Awards

Carl TIghe has had several awards and nominations for his writing

  • · A Whisper in the Wind, All-London Drama Award, 1988
  • · Gdansk Nominated for the Silver PEN Award, 1991
  • · Rejoice! Nominated for the David Higham Award, 1992
  • · Rejoice! Shortlisted for The Irish Times Fiction Prize, November 1993
  • · Pax: Variations, Winner of City Life Writer of the Year 2000 Award
  • · Burning Worm Short-listed for Whitbread Award, 2002
  • · Burning Worm Winner of Authors’ Club Award, 2002
  • · KssssS: a Tale of Sex, Money & Alien Invasion

Works

Fiction

· Rejoice! And Other Stories (Jonathan Cape 1992)

· Pax: Variations (IMPress 2000)

· Burning Worm (Impress 2001)

· KssssS: a Tale of Sex, Money & Alien Invasion (IMPress 2004)

· Druids Hill (Five Leaves 2008)

Non-fiction

· The Playwrights’ Register (Yr Academi Gymreig, 1984)

· Gdańsk: National Identity in the Polish German Borderlands (Pluto, 1989)

· The Politics of Literature: Polish Writers and Communism 1945-89 (University of Wales Press, 1999)

· Writing and Responsibility (Routledge, 2005)

· Writing the World: Writing as a Subject of Study (Kingston University Press, 2014)

· Creative and Professional Writing @ University: Frequently Asked Questions (IMPress, 2015)

Short Fiction and Poetry

‘Day Out’ Element 5, no.3, 1983

‘The Bird House’ Spectrum, June 1983

‘The Colour of Your Money’ Iron, no.46, June 1985

‘A Happy Story’ Frames, no.4, 1985

‘Rejoice’ Planet, June 1985

‘A State of Mind’ Planet, August 1987

‘Andzrej D: Polish Poet’ Poetry Wales, spring 1988

‘And Now This’ Ambit, no.113, August 1988

‘And Now This’ 20/20, August 1989

‘Bug Out’ Ambit: Irish Edition, no.115, February 1989

‘Bug Out’ Blueprint, August 1989

‘Interviews after Midnight’ Margins, no.10, April, 1990

‘And Now This’ Passport, no.3, 1991

‘En Nu Dit’ De Tweede Ronde, Spring 1991

‘Underground’ New Hungarian Quarterly, no.124, winter 1991

‘Medhbh’ Literary Review, February 1992

‘Reservations’ Metropolitan, winter 1993

‘Snowman’ Metropolitan, winter 1994

‘A State of Mind’ The Big Issue in the North, 19–25 August 1996

‘Visa’ Metropolitan, spring 1997

‘Hartland’ Ambit, no.149, July 1997

‘Al Haqq’ Ambit, no.151, February 1998

‘Driving Der Führer’ De Tweede Ronde, August 1998

‘Visiting Auntie’ Ambit, no.158, November 1999

‘Visiting Auntie’ www.ambit.co.uk November 1999

‘Visiting Auntie’ Heads Exhibition Derby Museum & Art Gallery 15–27 January 2000

‘Rejoice!’ (German trans), Erkundungen: 28 Walisische Erzahler, Berlin, 1989

‘And Now This’, Best Short Stories of 1989, G. Gordon & D. Hughes (eds.), 1990

‘And Now This’, Minerva Short Stories 2, G. Gordon & D. Hughes (eds.), 1991

‘Medhbh’, Six Irish Writers, M. McKernon (ed.), Cape, 1992.

‘Trumpet of Victory’, Telling Stories 3, D. Minshull (ed.), BBC publications, 1994

‘Virtporn’, Waterstone’s Alien Landings, August 1997

‘Reservations’, The Best Short Stories of 1994, G. Gordon & D. Hughes (eds.), 1994

‘KssssS’ (selection from novel) Ambit, no.167, January 2002

‘Visiting Auntie’, Manchester Stories 3, R. Page (ed.), City Life 2002

‘No Breakfast’, www.the-phone-book.com September 2002

‘Living in the Irish Sea’, The Quiet Quarter anthology of New Irish Writing, RTE/New Island (Dublin), 2004

‘Living in the Irish Sea’, short story, The Quiet Quarter: Ten Years of Great Irish Writing, RTE/Lyric fm/New Island (Dublin)

‘Best Man’, The Warwick Review, March 2010

‘Neighbours and Strangers’, Ambit no 200, spring 2010

‘Six Memories’, The Warwick Review, June 2012

‘Two Nuns’, Istanbul Review: The Screen of Literature (Istanbul) March 2013

‘Early Days’, Ambit no 213, August 2013

‘Five Poems’, Element 5, 1982

‘Four Poems’, Frames, 3, 1985

’Three Poems’, Iron 42, February 1984

‘Black Man, White Man’, Poets against Apartheid, Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement

‘Black Man, White Man’, Poetry Street 2, D. Orme & J. Sale (eds.), 1990,

‘Black Man, White Man’, English GC4 Workbook, Berlin 1995

‘Two Poems’, The Affectionate Punch 2, November 1995

‘Crazy Eddie and the Teaching Machine’, Citi-Zine (Derby) June 2010

‘Seven poems’, Ambit no 203, February 2011

‘Fourteen Poems’, The Swansea Review Spring 2012:

www.swanseareview.com/2012/editorial

‘Joyspring’, 80 Words for Martin Bax, Ambit Press, August 2013

Stage & Radio

The Walking Upright Show, (joint author) Studio Group 1974

Work in Progress, a radio play, published in Prospect 1, 1974

Little Dogs, with music by Lydia Aylot, Gdansk, 1976

The ‘A’ Card, Open Cast Theatre, commissioned and produced, 1977

Effie’s Folly or Ignorance Rewarded, Open Cast Theatre, 1979

Fair Play, co-devised and scripted, Open Cast Theatre, 1979

Jewels, reading by Studio Group, 1979; reading by PoW! 1985; reading by Tabard Theatre, 1986

The Prince and the Dragon, reading by Made in Wales, 1983

How to be a Lady: v.1 and v.2, co-scripted, Chwarae Teg, 1981–82

The Big Break, Action PIE, commissioned and produced 1982

The Hammer and the Anvil, reading by PoW! 1984; reading by Tabard, 1985

Comic Cabaret Sketches, 24 Hour Speaking Programme, 1984-5

A Whisper in the Wind, winner of the All-London Drama Prize, 1987

Rejoice! Commissioned by WOT Theatre, Cardiff 1989; Soho Theatre, workshop, April 1997

KssssS, stage-play version of the novel, commissioned by Contact Theatre with development finance from the BBC and North West Arts Board, spring 2003

Little Jack Horner, BBC Wales / Raidió Teilifís Éireann Dublin, 1985

Baku! Commissioned & devised for BBC Wales, 1986

‘The Bird House’, BBC Wales, Morning Story, 11 April 1989

‘The Trumpet of Victory’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 19 July 1993

‘Day Out’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 31 August 1994

‘Andrzej, Polish Poet’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 6 December 1995

‘April Fool’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 1 April 1996

‘Lucy’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 9 September 1996

‘Radio Regen Tall Tales: Burning Worm’, Radio Regen, 13 August 2000

‘One’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 24 June 2002

‘Two’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 25 June 2002

‘Three’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 26 June 2002

‘Four’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 27 June 2002

‘Five’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 28 June 2002

‘Mothers’ BBC Radio 4, Off the Page, 6 Sept 2002

‘Naggety-Nag’ Lyric fm, The Quiet Quarter, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 24 December 2002

References

  1. ↑ "Worming its way into our affections". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  2. ↑ Crace, John (2001-11-27). "Prized obsession". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  3. ↑ "Carl Tighe". press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  4. ↑ "Writing the World: Writing as a Subject of Study - Kingston University Press - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Kingston University London". fass.kingston.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  5. ↑ News, Manchester Evening (2007-02-17). "Author's Worm hooks judges". men. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  6. ↑ "Carl Tighe". Sage Journals. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  7. ↑ "Carl Tighe :: National Association of Writers in Education ::". www.nawe.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  8. ↑ News, Manchester Evening (2005-04-30). "Carl scoops best book honour". men. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  9. ↑ "Worming its way into our affections". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
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