Michael Yates


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Edited Arctic Night, anthology of short stories from Featherstone Arts Festival International Short Story Competition

Organised Featherstone Arts Festival National Short Story Competitions

Edited and published Storyteller Magazine

Co-edited Yorkshire Mixture short story anthology volume two, published by Yorkshire Art Circus

Wrote and published short stories in Yorkshire Mixture anthology volume one, and in Jackie and Teachers World

Poet in Residence in Whitby, at Wakefield Cathedral and in Wakefield Hospitals

Lyrics commissioned for Leeds Lieder concert by Leeds College of Music

Commissioned by Wakefield Libraries to write and perform poems on the reading experience, followed by publication of booklet Off the Shelf

Released Jigsaw CD of poem performances with Marian Walker.

Commissioned to write and perform for first Whitby Caedmon Festival

Founded Wakefield's Black Horse Poets and edited Full Gallop, the group's anthology; also featured in their current anthology Front Runner. Founder member of Access Poets, for able bodied and disabled poets, based in Wakefield   

Poetry performances at Wakefield Art Gallery, Ilkley Literature Festival, Wakefield Cathedral; Whitby schools, as part of the Whitby Caedmon Literary Festival; also Swinton Community School and Balby Carr High School, South Yorkshire, and Castleford High School, West Yorkshire; PJK Art and Poetry Gallery, Skipton; The Monkey Bar, The Theatre Royal Garden Room and the Add-Lib Gallery, all in Wakefield; Café Moderno and Strawberry Fields, both in Leeds;  Melborne Hotel and The Love Apple, both in Bradford; Bukowski’s Piano Bar, Sheffield; and St George’s Church, Castleford.

Brick Wall, prize-winning video based on award-winning dramatic monologue

A Real Cushy Number, one-act hospital drama performed as part of a double bill at Featherstone Community Theatre

Pontefractions, satirical history of Pontefract, performed at Pontefract Town Hall, to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the town.