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'''Caroline Moir''' is a British author based in Kendal UK, close to the Lake District National Park.
She is known for writing plays, fiction (genres include the dystopic and modern gothic) and creative non-fiction. A focus of her work is also as an educationalist and promoter of literary arts. She studied English & philosophy at the University of Birmingham, masters at Lancaster University and a PhD from the University of Glasgow.<ref>{{cite thesis|url=http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3278/|title=The Brockenspectre: The novel as site of transcendental homelessness|year=2012|publisher=University of Glasgow|type=PhD|last1=Moir|first1=Caroline J. G.}}</ref>
Moir has written two novels ''Jemillia'' (2007) and ''The Brockenspectre'' (2011), with work on the third commencing from 2013/14. Commissions include BBC Radio, Ripon Cathedral and Kendal Community Theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/whats_on/10546741.Kendal_Community_Theatre_stage_Caroline_Moir_s_Lady_Anne_Clifford_____a_woman_cast_out/|title=Kendal Community Theatre stage Caroline Moir's Lady Anne Clifford – a woman cast out|date=15 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kendalcommunitytheatre.org/apps/blog/|title=News|access-date=27 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316091108/http://www.kendalcommunitytheatre.org/apps/blog/|archive-date=16 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Moir collaborates regularly with fellow writers and artists, amongst them Guy Wilson (The Armed Man). Through these collaborations, she is active in a number of progressive literary circles, co-establishing The Leeds Peace Poetry Festival in 2003 and Warehouse Writers Workshop at The Brewery Arts Centre Kendal in 2006. In 2015/16 as a founder and member of Kendal Community Theatre, she co-created Kendal Yarns Festival - a week long festival of plays featuring over 50 new plays by people from the region, with involvement from a number of nationally acclaimed theatre directors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kendalcommunitytheatre.org/kendal-yarns|title=Kendal Community Theatre - Kendal Yarns|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316231908/http://www.kendalcommunitytheatre.org/kendal-yarns|archive-date=16 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Publications==
*Timeo Danaos (From Glasgow to Saturn, 2011);<ref>[http://glasgowtosaturn.com/archive/ Archive | From Glasgow to Saturn<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://fromglasgowtosaturn.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/issue22.pdf}}</ref> *A goat, a duppy & a walnut tree (Unbound Press/Spilling Ink Review, 2011);<ref>[http://unboundpress.com/authors/authors-k-p/caroline-moir/ Caroline Moir | Unbound Press<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921134913/http://unboundpress.com/authors/authors-k-p/caroline-moir/ |date=21 September 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://scribblers2010.blogspot.in/2011/03/spilling-ink-review.html|title=Felixstowe Scribblers 2021: Spilling Ink Review|date=19 March 2011}}</ref> *Homage à Rabelais en Roussillon (Brand Magazine, 2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brandliterarymagazine.co.uk/editions/06/contributors/02/extract.pdf|title=Brandliterarymagazine.co.uk}}</ref> *St Wilfred of Ripon or A Tale of Two Tonsures (commissioned & performed, 2009) *Nusf Sahaa (BRAND, 2009) *Asda (swampwriting, 2008) *The Kendal Shepherds' Play (commissioned & performed, 2007); *Flight (Muse, 2006) *Mary's Story (commissioned & performed, 2005);<ref>[http://www.swampwriting.com/?page_id=62 » Asda<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *The Man Who Told a Lie (Transmission, 2005) *A Passion for Kendal<ref>[http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/9221794.First_ever_passion_play_for_Kendal/ First-ever passion play for Kendal (From The Westmorland Gazette)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://apassionforkendal.blogspot.com/ A Passion For Kendal: Kendal Community Theatre<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> *Lady Anne Clifford: A Woman Cast Out
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