Biography
Jamie Woods is a writer from Swansea. He has had poetry in Poetry Wales, short fiction in Evergreen Review and The Lonely Crowd, and his poem ‘Ring the Bell’ was commended in the Hippocrates International Prize for Poetry and Medicine 2021.
His ‘special interests’ include Star Wars, 90s indie music, watching football, and reading.
Leukaemia
In August 2019 Jamie was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia (APL) – a rare and dangerous form of blood cancer.
He has been in remission since 2020, and tries to help other leukaemia patients as a patient panellist, mental health advocate, podcast guest, fundraiser, and supporter of the charity Leukaemia Care UK.
You can read Jamie’s Leukaemia story on Leukaemia Care’s website.
Poetry
Only Ever One Summer – 30 sketched poems (jamiewoods77.com Free Download, 2022)
“Block Caps No Nuance”, Poetry Wales (Poetry Wales 57.3 Spring, 2022)
“Ring the Bell”, The 2021 Hippocrates Prize Anthology (Hippocrates Press, 2021)
“The Failed Promyelocytic Rebellion of 2019”, Marble Broadsheet (Broadsheet #3: Body, 2021)
“Dust”, Solve et Coagula (Modern Alchemists, 2014)
Fiction
“Underneath the Blue Skies”, The Lonely Crowd (2015)
“Just Like Honey”, Stories From Songs (2013)
“The Comfort and the Joy of Feeling Lost”, Smoke: A London Peculiar (2013)
“Points of Articulation”, Evergreen Review (Issue 129, Spring 2012)
“Already”, The First Line (Vol.13 Issue 2, Summer 2011)
Non-Fiction
For Leukaemia Care / Leukaemia Matters
My Leukaemia Story | 2020
Survivor’s Guilt | 2021
PTSD & Leukaemia | Pages 23-24 | 2021
For Wales Arts Review
Greatest Welsh Novel: Gold by Dan Rhodes | 2015, 2016
Review: Half plus Seven by Dan Tyte | 2014
Great Musical Moments: Manic Street Preachers ‘Rewind The Film‘ | 2013
Review: The Rhys Davies Short Story Conference | 2013
Essays
Essay: ‘Broken Doll, Shattered Whore, Doing it for the Kids: Courtney, juvenility and pedagogy’| It Felt Like a Kiss: The Courtney Love Anthology | 2013
Essay: ‘Old Traditions, New Standards: Technology and the Teaching of Creative Writing’| Cardiff University MA | 2013
Interview: ‘Indeli-Chats: The Indelicates Meet Pop Hits’ own Jamie Woods’ | Pop Hits | 2013
For Sweeping the Nation
Seething Observatory | 2009
Noughties by Nature: Town Bike ‘Ride of your Life’| 2009
Noughties by Nature: Aaliyah ‘More Than A Woman’| 2009
Noughties by Nature: Wyclef Jean ‘Perfect Gentleman’| 2009
Teaching
Jamie teaches part-time courses for adults at Cardiff University, including Digital Publishing, Starting to Write, and Creative Writing Workshop.
You find details of courses on the Cardiff Part-time courses for adults website.
In 2014 he worked with Literature Wales and the Wales Millennium Centre on a cross-art form schools project, based on the work of Dylan Thomas. Developing Dylan Workshops
He’s also taught an undergraduate Creative Writing class at Cardiff University, and has run and supported Creative Writing sessions in schools for children of all ages across Cardiff and Swansea.
Contact
If you’d like to get in touch, whether to say hello, or to ask Jamie to write or read or teach or work on a project (or something else equally exciting), then say hello on instagram, twitter, or fill in this form. Go on. He’ll write back. Promise.
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