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Continue Reading‘Not long into a Steve Dearden story, I’m always a bit lost, bewildered almost. I mean in a good way – compelled not confused. There’s a mystery I have to solve. Part of the mystery is in the meticulous unfolding of the story and the other part is the powerful force and density of his…
Continue ReadingI’ve been a Writer in Residence at Bluewater Shopping Centre as part of archiTEXTS for the 2013 & 14 Wakefield Literature Festivals. In addition to the publications in the slider above, my stories have been published in magazines such as Westerly, Horizont and the Reater and anthologies like route’s Compendium and Naked City and Brace from Comma Press. A rare poem…
Continue ReadingInterland was a collaboration with Kath McKay, Adam Strickson and from Yorkshire, England and Carita Nystrom, Marko Hautala and Ralf Andtbacka from Ostrobothnia, Finland. ‘Steve Dearden’s short prose epiphanies are perfectly placed at the beginning of the book. There’s a carefully organised and mellifluous quality that carries you along. There is also a great variety of…
Continue ReadingRALF ANDTBACKA, WRITER
One word springs to mind: integrity; that quality is present in everything Steve does. For Steve, literature above all signifies empowerment, intellectually and existentially, and this is the key motivational force behind his work both as a writer and an activist
Continue ReadingMIRANDA MCKEARNEY, FOUNDER OF THE READING AGENCY
Steve is one of those thoroughly independent minded people who hauls you up short and makes you think again. There aren’t enough people like that around, and he is experienced in just about every angle of literature development.
Continue ReadingRichard Watts, People Make It Work
I enjoy working with you – the insights, distinctions and questions you ask are really powerful.
Continue ReadingHENDERSON MULLIN, CEO WRITING EAST MIDLANDS
If anyone should be thanked for talking sense it’s you!
Continue ReadingWIEKE ERINGA, DIRECTOR YORKSHIRE DANCE
It’s an absolute treasure to work with someone of your expertise and if anything I only regret we can’t do it more often.
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