AccoladesFor services to the arts…
DIVA award for Achievement in the Arts (see picture right) "A poet of the everyday world, he is consistently good" - Brian Patten "I like the humanity... the way his poems seem to be full of real people feeling real emotions" - Ian McMillan "He has an ear for popular diction reminiscent of Alan Bennett. His eye for comic fiction reminds me of Roger McGough" - Bradford Telegraph & Argus "As for the author's efforts at female banter, the female cast feel he has got it right!" - Alison Lyon, Yorkshire Evening Post, on QWERTYUIOP "A move away from the author's quirky comedies of the past, the show features some of his blackest touches of humour but is set to be an emotional tour de force" - Wakefield Express on The Navigator's Daughter "The plays allow us to explore a broad range of human emotions and characteristics" - Carl Miller, Wakefield Express, on Table Dancing Prizewinner… In poetry competitions organised by... Cannon's Mouth Magazine Buzzwords Live Canon Emerging Poets In short story competitions organised by… Wolds Words Festival Jersey Arts Centre Armagh Writers Festival Grace Dieu Writers' Circle In the drama competition organised by… Sheffield One-Act Play Festival (Stanley Arnold Trophy for the play Life Sentence) In journalism awards from… UK Press Gazette for special edition of The Sheffield Star on the Hillsborough Disaster Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors: Newspaper Journalist of the Year for feature on saving villages in the Derbyshire Dales |  |
