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Chrissie GittinsChrissie GittinsBack | Genres | Bibliography | Prizes and awards | Further reading on this site | Contact details | Related links | Printer-friendly version
BiographyChrissie Gittins was born in Lancashire and now lives in South London. She studied at Newcastle University and St Martin's School of Art and was originally an artist and teacher, before becoming a full-time writer.
Several of her popular radio plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio, and include Starved for Love, Life Assurance and Dinner in the Iguanodon. Her short stories have also been broadcast, and her first short story collection, Family Connections, was published in 2007.
She has published two adult poetry collections, Armature in 2003 and I'll Dress One Night As You (2009).
Her award-winning poetry for children is collected in three publications: Now You See Me Now You Don't (2002), republished in 2009; I Don't Want an Avocado for an Uncle (2006); and The Humpback's Wail (2010). The first two collections were shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Award and all three were Poetry Book Society Choices for the Children's Poetry Bookshelf.
She has performed her poetry at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, the Hay Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival and at the Poets' House, New York.
Chrissie Gittins has worked extensively with children and young people and has undertaken residencies in prisons, a hospice, schools and libraries. She is a member of the Poetry Society's poetryclass training team for teachers.
Genres (in alphabetical order)Fiction, Poetry, Radio drama
BibliographyAs Girls Could Boast (contributor) Oscars Press, 1994 A Path of Rice (pamphlet) Dagger Press, 1997 The Listening Station (pamphlet) Dagger Press, 1998 Pilot (pamphlet) Dagger Press, 2001 Poems are ... Private (contributor) Pearson Education, 2001 Signals 3 (contributor) London Magazine Editions, 2001 Now You See Me, Now You Don't (illustrated by Gunnlaug Moen Hembery) Rabbit Hole, 2002 Reactions 3 (contributor) Pen&inc, 2002 Armature Arc, 2003 Don't Panic: 100 Poems to Save Your Life (contributor) Macmillan, 2003 Love, Hate, And My Best Mate (contributor) Hodder Wayland, 2004 Dance to the Guns of Silence (contributor) Flipped Eye, 2005 The Poetry Cure (contributor) Bloodaxe, 2005 I Don't Want an Avocado for an Uncle (illustrated by Kev Adamson) Rabbit Hole, 2006 Family Connections Salt, 2007 Bards in the Bog (contributor) Shetland Library, 2009 I'll Dress One Night As You Salt, 2009 Michael Rosen's A-Z: The Best Children's Poetry from Agard to Zephaniah (contributor) Puffin, 2009 The Humpback's Wail (illustrated by Paul Bommer) Rabbit Hole, 2010
Prizes and awards1994 Poetry News Competition (winner - 'L'Usage de la Parole') 1996 ICA New Blood Short Story Competition (prizewinner - 'A Small Smudge of Blood') 1996 Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition (prizewinner - 'No Further') 2001 Hawthornden Fellowship 2002 Belmont Poetry Prize (9-12 years category winner - 'The Powder Monkey') 2002 Belmont Poetry Prize (5-8 years category runner-up - 'Bradshaw Plots His Revenge') 2002 Biscuit Fiction Short Story Competition (prizewinner - 'The Treatment Room') 2002 Ottakar's & Faber National Poetry Day Competition (prizewinner - 'Armature') 2003 CLPE Poetry Award (shortlist) Now You See Me Now You Don't 2005 Arts Council Writers' Award 2007 CLPE Poetry Award (shortlist) I Don't Want An Avocado for an Uncle 2007 Society of Authors Foundation Fund Writers' Award
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