Rob Walton
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Rob Walton

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Rob Walton has won the UK's National Flash Fiction Day micro-fiction competition (which he also sometimes judges) and placed second in Aotearoa New Zealand's contest. His poem "Letters" appeared on The National Poetry Day website. He has performed, written and taught in the North East for a number of years. A graduate of Newcastle University's Creative Writing MA, he has written gardening columns for the Hull Daily Mail, an online schools' resource for the Tyneside Cinema, columns for Scunthorpe United's matchday programme, books for teachers and numerous articles for education magazines. He has also written for performance, including several pantomimes and shows for The Big Fun Club. He has collaborated on projects such as Parky Tales for Newcastle Gateshead Initiative/Magnetic Events' Enchanted Parks and Dive-In Cinema. The latter was re-commissioned for the SO! Festival. He worked with sculptor Russ Coleman and the local community to write the text for the New Hartley Memorial Pathway. He worked with Russ again on Concrete 64, a commission for Fountain17, part of the offering for Hull's City of Culture programme. He was commissioned by New Writing North to write a short story to coincide with the refurbishment of Tynemouth's Metro station, published in Platform. His short story A Drop of Golden Sun was published in Positional Vertigo by Askance Publishing. Lenny Bolton Changes Trains and The Yellow Tulips appear in Stations from Arachne Press. Crazy Paving was published in Root, an Iron Press anthology. Two poems for children appeared in Let's Play!,an anthology from Frances Lincoln in September 2013. In Spring 2015 his poem Small, smaller, smallest appeared in Dear Tomato. His short stories and flash fictions have appeared on numerous websites, including Pygmy Giant, Flash Frontier (NZ), Spelk, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Paragraph Planet, National Flash Fiction Day and 1000words. Poetry has appeared in various Emma Press anthologies, books by Northern Voices, Firewords Quarterly, Limerick Nation from IRON Press, the Live from Worktown anthology 1915 and Butcher's Dog magazine. Work has also appeared in publications from Sidekick Books and Bennison Books. His poetry collection This Poem Here was published by Arachne Press on in 2021. He lives in Whitley Bay with his daughters.
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