Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: Nov. 11, 2011

Pete Owen Williams


Biography

Pete trained as an actor in The Northern School of Music and Drama, Manchester in the 60s. He put his acting career on hold whilst he taught Drama in a Secondary School with the intention of leaving after four years and re-activating the acting.

After a career lasting forty-three years in which he lectured in Higher and Further Education, designing and developing drama courses, Pete retired in 2008. Throughout his life he has written fiction, drama and poetry. Many of his works were Theatre-In-Education projects for organisations like the Police, Alcohol Concern, and Road Safety organisations.

In addition to writing, Pete is a performance poet, writing and performing his work in South Wales and the South West. He is also a photographer, presenter and web designer for Lens Flair Wales. (http://www.lfwales.co.uk)

Where to find Pete Owen Williams online

Website: http://www.peteowenwilliams.co.uk
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Books

The Dark Tunnel and Other Plays    by Pete Owen Williams
Price: $1.99 USD. 50970 words. Published on December 5, 2011. Fiction.
This book is a collection of plays for the stage, radio and film. The title play concerns A father who fought in the first Gulf War and returned with severe PTSD and his son who fought in the second Gulf War and was killed by his own comrades. Other plays include two plays for radio, 'Wildebeest' and Parsnip Wine, a film script about depression called Panic Attack and several other short plays.
Quaker Holmes and Other Poems    by Pete Owen Williams
Price: $1.99 USD. 10380 words. Published on November 23, 2011. Fiction.
A collection of poems set mostly in industrial South Wales but also ranging as far away as Chile and General Pinochet, Sierra Leone, Africa. The poems deal with current social and political issues. The collection also includes some performance poems.
The Chime Children    by Pete Owen Williams
Price: $1.99 USD. 37650 words. Published on November 23, 2011. Fiction.
a children's exciting story of two children who discover they are chime children, born when the clock was chiming the magical hours of 3,6,9 and 12. this arms them in the constant fight against evil. they join forces with other agents of good and prepare for the final showdown in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
Between Dark and Daylight    by Pete Owen Williams
Price: $1.99 USD. 100480 words. Published on November 22, 2011. Fiction.
'between dark and daylight' is a thriller set in the north of england. it is a fast-moving mystery. jack coulthard left the market town at gun point ten years before the thriller opens. he swore he would never return. now he has. his reluctance was well-founded as his plans unravel and he and anyone close to him is placed in severe danger because of the events of ten years ago.

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