2524 Myth: Prose and Verse with Daniel Morden and Catherine Fisher, Guest Reader Dimitra Fimi

Writing Myth, Fiction and Poetry for children and adults

Since 1989 Daniel Morden has travelled the world, telling traditional tales. His repertoire ranges from profound Greek myths to magical fairy tales, thrilling adventures to absurd nonsense. He has performed at the National Theatre, Sydney Writers Festival, The National Storytelling Festival of America, The Getty Centre, many theatres, arts centres, festivals, churches and thousands of schools. In 2017 he was awarded the Hay Festival Medal for his services to storytelling. He has written several award-winning anthologies of traditional stories, including Dark Tales from the Woods.

“To experience Daniel Morden in full flight is an amazing thing. He combines the skills of the troubadour, the actor, the bard, the standup comedian and the preacher in the pulpit. One of the UK’s greatest storytellers.” BBC Radio 3

Please note the tutor change from Kevin Crossley-Holland to Daniel Morden.

Catherine Fisher is a poet and novelist for children and young people. She has published five collections of poetry, the most recent being The Bramble King (Seren Books) Her work has been widely anthologised. She has written over 40 novels for young people, often using myth and legend, including Incarceron, a New York Times bestseller and Times Book of the Year, and her work has been translated into many languages. She has been shortlisted for the Carnegie, Blue Peter, Smarties Book Prize and Costa Awards and has twice won the Welsh Books Council Tir na n’og Prize, most recently with The Clockwork Crow. Her latest work is a re-telling of the Mabinogi story, Culhwch and Olwen. She was the inaugural Young People’s Laureate for Wales.

Guest Reader

Dimitra Fimi is Professor of Fantasy and Children’s Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. Both her monographs (Tolkien, Race and Cultural History, 2008; Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy, 2017) won Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards, and she won the 2021 Outstanding Contribution to Tolkien Studies award (Tolkien Society). She has published extensively on J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy literature more widely, including children’s literature, myth and legend in literature, and invented languages. She co-edits the Perspectives on Fantasy book series (Bloomsbury), with Brian Attebery and Matthew Sangster.