Maggie Hamand
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| Occupation | Writer |
Maggie Hamand (born in 1953) in an English writer.
Early life
Maggie Hamand (nee Jones) was born in London in 1953 of Welsh, English and Scottish ancestry.[1] She spent much of her childhood in Germany, Hong King and Singapore before returning to the UK in 1964.[2] She was educated at state schools including High Wycombe High School and Beaconsfield High School and went on to study Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter, graduating in 1975.
Career
Maggie Hamand worked for the press and publications unit of the Family Planning Association and then the International Planned Parenthood Federation before becoming a freelance journalist. She wrote twenty non-fiction books, mainly on women's health and childcare issues, and her articles were published in magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. In 1994 she won the first World One-Day Novel Cup and her winning entry, The Resurrection of the Body, was published in 1995 by Michael Joseph and optioned for film and TV.[3]
Maggie Hamand founded The Complete Creative Writing Course at The Groucho Club in 1998 which she ran till 2019 and taught Creative Writing at Morley College.[3] She was Arts Council Writer in Residence at Holloway Prison from 2000-2001 and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at London University of the Arts from 2004-2007. She has a Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling from Birkbeck College and a City and Guilds Certificate in Further and Adult Education.
In 2002, Maggie Hamand founded and launched the independent publisher Maia Press with Jane Havell.[4] The press won awards and many titles were nominated for major prizes, including the Man Booker Longlist 2004
Maggie Hamand studied for a Masters in Christian Spirituality from 2008-2010 at Heythrop College, London, and then for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Hull, being awarded her doctorate in 2018.[3] The resulting novel, Virgin & Child, was published by Barbican Press in 2020.[5] She was Senior Lecturer at the University of Hull's Creative Writing Masters (Online) from 2019 to 2022.[3]
Maggie Hamand is the author of Amazon best-selling Creative Writing For Dummies and Creative Writing Exercises For Dummies. A new revised and updated edition of Creative Writing For Dummies is published in September 2023.[6]
Personal life
Maggie Hamand is married to editor and translator Jeremy Hamand and they have three sons together. They live in East London.
References
- ↑ "Meet Pope Patrick – Irish, intersex and pregnant". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- ↑ "Maggie Hamand, author of Virgin & Child shares seven things she'd like her readers to know about her". www.femalefirst.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Hull, University of. "Academic team - Maggie Hamand". online.hull.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- ↑ "Maia Press - About Us". www.maiapress.com. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- ↑ "Barbican Press | Virgin & Child (HB)". Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- ↑ "Creative Writing For Dummies". dummies. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
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