Alison Leonard - The complete list

Recent publications:

A goddess-loving Quaker ponders her dilemmas, a chapter in Patterns and Examples, edited by Jarman and Tucker, published by Sessions of York, 2005.

Sisters of the Early Shift, in the anthology Life Lines, published by Chester Academic Press, 2004.

Journey Towards The Goddess - 10,000-word article in Feminist Theology, September 2003 (see under Books on Spirituality).

Living in Godless Times - tales of spiritual travellers - an exploration of modern spirituality based on life-story interviews with people on self-discovered paths, published in April 2001 by Floris Books

Radio plays:

After Eden (a series with six episodes, 1995, repeated 1996, producer Alison Hindell)
Small Clouds Over Llangollen (BBC Radio 4, 1994, producer Alison Hindell)
A Month Of Lunchtimes (BBC Radio 4, 1992, producer Jane Dauncey)
Death And Taxes In Venice (BBC Radio 4, 1992, producer Kay Patrick)
Heretics (BBC Radio 4, Monday Play, 1992 and 1994, producer Jane Dauncey)
Herr Doktor Murke's Collected Silences (adaptated from a story by Heinrich Böll, BBC Radio 3, 1990 and 1991, producer Paul Schlesinger)
A Scarecrow Singing (BBC Radio 4, 1988, producer Adrian Mourby)
The Gresford Chickens (BBC Radio 4, 1987, producer Adrian Mourby)
The Penrhyn Summer (BBC Radio 4, 1985 & 1986, producer Adrian Mourby)

(Many of these plays were also broadcast in the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany)

For more information about radio drama see: Diversity, which keeps a wide range of radio plays on disk.

Broadcast Stories:

Story Within A Story (BBC Radio 4, 1997)
Annie's Hands (BBC Radio 4, 1994)
Fun in Florence (BBC Radio 4, 1993)
Killer Ken's Garden (BBC Radio 4, 1989)

Alison's stories have also been published in Writing Women, SHE, The Independent on Sunday; winner Northern Stories 1990 & 1998.

Poems:

Sisters of the Early Shift, in the anthology Life Lines, published by Chester Academic Press, October 2004.

Callanish Stone Circle, in the anthology Sacred Stones, edited by Maril Crabtree, published by Adams Media (USA), December 2003.

Eve Etc. (Edinburgh Review, no 107, 2001)

To the men who plan war   in   Lines in the Sand, ed Mary Hoffman and Rhiannon Lassiter (published by Frances Lincoln, 2003)

Miriam   in   The Poetic Bible, ed. Colin Duriez (published by Hendrickson, 2001)

Aphrodite as a Rock and First Communion in an article entitled Journey Towards the Goddess (Feminist Theology, September 2003)

Jeremiah's Wife (Friendly Woman, vol 14 no 7, Summer 2001)

Tardebigge   in   Sunflower Poems, edited by Isabel Gillard (Paris Books, 1990)

First Communion   in   The One Loaf, ed. Joy Mead (Wildgoose Publications)

I affirm...   in   This I affirm, edited by Harvey Gillman (Quaker Home Service, 1999)

Novels for young adults:

Frankenstein - rewritten for teenage reluctant readers (Heinemann Educational, 1999)
Ghost Gone Missing (Ginn 1997, out of print)
Kiss The Kremlin Goodbye (Walker Books hardback 1991, paperback 1992, published by Alibaba in Germany; chosen by W H Smith for a "Real Books for Real Teenagers" promotion)
Gate-Crashing The Dream Party (Walker Books hardback 1989, paperback 1990, published by Herder in Germany, out of print)
Tinker's Career (Walker Books hardback 1988, paperback 1989, published by Viking in USA, by Forum in Denmark and by Herder in Germany)
An Inch of Candle (Angus & Robertson hardback 1980, Collins Fontana paperback 1982, out of print)
The Crest Of The Dragon (Hamish Hamilton 1975, out of print)

Books for younger children:

Computer Whizz Kids (a set of four books published by Orchard Books, hardback 1996, paperback 1997, out of print)
    The Magnificent Dream Disk
    Marybelle and her Computer Aunt
    The Write-it-Right Computer
    The Battle-Disk of Troy
The Mystery of the Rugglesmoor Dinosaur (Walker 1993, 1994, 1997, out of print)
Quiddy and the Mysterious Mega-Virus (Longman 1995, and 3 later reprints)

Stories in anthologies and series:

The Oxford Book of Scary Tales
The Kingfisher Treasury of Stories for Under-5s
The Collins Book of Ballet Stories
"Paradise Loft" in Orion's 1997 "Quids for Kids" story collection

Plays for children and young people:

Carrie and Wid (winner, Sacred Earth Drama Trust competition 1997)
You've Got It Wrong Again, Gabriel (Church House, 1988, out of print 1993, Deutsche Theater Verlag '96)

Writing and broadcasting on spirituality:

Living in Godless Times - tales of spiritual travellers (Floris Books 2001)
Telling Our Stories - wrestling with a fresh language for the spiritual journey (Darton Longman & Todd 1995, distributed in USA by Abingdon Press 1997)
Journey Towards The Goddess (article in Feminist Theology, September 2003)

Talks on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4 and local radio 'God slots'.

Contributions: Guardian (Face to Faith), Connect (Methodist), The Friend (Quaker)

Editor, Quaker Monthly, 1979-84

Courses and workshops:

For schools in the UK since '81: talks/workshops/residencies with children of all ages
For the Taliesin Trust: Radio Drama 1992, Writing and Spirituality 1995, 1998
For The Grange Centre: writing tutor 1998-2002
For the Pushkin Prizes Trust (Ireland / NI): creative writing tutor for teachers 1998
For Cheshire County Council: ten years as tutor with severely disabled adults
For the Arvon Foundation: tutor in Writing for Teenagers, 1991
For the Quaker Youth Theatre: musical about war and peace, Belfast '88, Aberdeen '89
For Quaker/Methodist/Catholic groups: group facilitator for personal development and spirituality
For The Leaveners and GreenSpirit: facilitator for events 2000-2002.