David Williams

In order, I am a family man, an English northerner, and a freelance writer for more years than I care to remember, first as a playwright, mainly for BBC radio and a variety of education publishers, latterly as a novelist and short story writer. More recently, I have become a games inventor. My company, Creating Games, has licensed over a dozen titles in both English and foreign language editions.

2025 saw the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway. As part of the celebrations, my novel 'Mr Stephenson's Regret' was republished in a Stephenson 200 Anniversary edition, and my stage play, 'Geordie' was premiered by Cliffe Theatre in Stockton in the autumn of 2025. Look out for a forthcoming publication of this play together with a one-act play 'The Burning', written to mark the 200th anniversary of the invention of the friction match by John Walker - another Stockton connection. Look out too for my crossover novel 'Märta's Mountain', expected publication 2027.