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Antoinette Moses is a writer who has a graduate degree in creative writing and completed a PhD on verbatim theatre. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she worked in arts administration and journalism, directing the Cambridge Animation festival from 1979 to 1984 and editing the journal of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
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Antoinette Moses is a writer who has a graduate degree in creative writing and completed a PhD on verbatim theatre. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she worked in arts administration and journalism, directing the Cambridge Animation festival from 1979 to 1984 and editing the journal of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
It’s a pleasure to take part in the BlogTour A Public Murder by Antoinette Moses.
About the Author
Antoinette Moses a life – When I was young, your passport included your profession. I put writer. ‘Why writer?’ asked my then boyfriend, ‘You never write anything.’ ‘But I’m going to,’ I said. I always knew I was going to be a writer. It just took a while to get going. I kept getting distracted by other things.
First distraction: Editing. Journalism. – I had to earn my living and so I got jobs in journalism, publishing and as a staff writer for a photographic news agency. I also took time off to travel. That’s when I first lived in Greece which was on and off between 1973 and 1978.
Second distraction: Festivals. – I first helped run a festival in 1970. It was the Oxford Animation Festival, and it was a huge success. It ended with Yellow Submarine and the Beatles singing ‘You’re such a lovely audience’… I was hooked. Both on audiences and festivals.
When I came back to England in 1978, I re-founded the Cambri
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Antoinette Moses grew up in London and although she always wanted to be a writer, she didn't start writing books until she was in her fifties. Since then she has written over twenty books and seven plays. She lived in Greece for four years and the country features extensively in her work, especially her new ones, set in Crete. Her books have won three Extensive Reading Awards and 'Jojo's Story' was described by one critic as "a classic for all time."
Having worked as an editor for various organisations and run arts festivals for many years, Antoinette went back to university in her sixties and got a creative writing MA and doctorate at the University of East Anglia where she subsequently taught creative writing and literature and helped create a festival of literature for young people: FLY!
She is now writing a new series of crime novels featuring DI Pam Greenwood. The first, A Public Murder, will be on sale from December 2020.