![]() Half-pink as a girl half-caught in gender’s chains. Ma’s pot lids cymbaling the pied kitchen walls, Siblings crazed with the power of older children. Wild and unhinged things would answer back. She performed with The London Writers Awards Poets, as part of The London Literature Festival at South Bank, where she debuted her first collection, Open Windows to a sold-out audience. Merrie is a 2019 poet-in-residence for ‘Let the Artists In!’ at MMU’s Special Collections, where she explored the process of being short-term fostered as a baby leading to a collection of poems, a commemorative art capsule, and a series of essays. Merrie won an Arts Council England award for her debut novel, SO. In 2018, as lead-facilitator of WRITTEN, she co-organised the first national residential for debut BAME fiction writers with full draft works-in-progress. A former English teacher, most recently she has coached Creative Writing in schools, and led or been a member of various adult writers’ groups. Merrie’s work has featured or is forthcoming in various publications, including The Interpreter’s House, The Colour of Madness (Stirling), Writing in Education, The Good Journal, Indivisible (Crocus), and Manchester: A New Alphabet, where she worked with illustrators to eulogise the city of her birth. She was a finalist for the National Book Award, which author Barry Hannah won. Krystallnacht, a chamber opera, debuted in 2016, in the Out of the Shadows festival (Leeds). Joy Williams was born on the 11th of February, 1944. Published in Taking Care, Vintage Contemporaries, 1985. She is a 2018 London Writers Award winner for poetry, and a winner of The Rosamond Prize, in collaboration with the composer, Anna Appleby. Williams seems to give Jenny an autonomy often lacking from stories where a child becomes a mirror of the parents’ anxieties, but this very consistency the lies, the secret later life is deeply unnerving. Merrie Joy Williams is a poet, novelist, librettist, reviewer, editor, and educator, with an MA in Creative Writing.
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