Jonathan Wilkins

I am almost 67. I have a gorgeous wife Annie and two beautiful sons; I love to write. I am a retired teacher, lapsed Waterstones’ bookseller and former Basketball Coach. I taught for twenty years and coached women’s basketball for over thirty years before taking up writing seriously.

These days, I regularly teach at creative writing workshops in and around Leicester and I take notes for students with Special Needs at Leicester University.

I have always loved books and reading, but nine years at Waterstone’s nearly put paid to that!

I’ve had a work commissioned by the UK Arts Council and had several pieces published traditionally as well as on-line. I have had some of my work placed in magazines and anthologies and also exhibited in art galleries, studios, museums and at Huddersfield Railway Station Waiting Room. I have my writing on various blogs. I love writing poetry.

I enjoy presenting papers at Crime Fiction conferences, it keeps my mind active through the research process and is a great way to meet new people and gain fresh ideas for writing!

For my recent MA, I wrote a crime novel “Utrecht Snow.” It is part of a series of murder mysteries I have planned based in the Dutch city. I followed it up with “Utrecht Rain” and self-published both. I am also writing a crime series set at the end of the Great War and into the early Twenties. I have to say, I love to write.

I am undertaking a Creative Writing PhD at Aberystwyth University where I will be writing my third Poppy novel and Golden Age Crime Fiction.

I have all the regular Social Media outlets, though am still trying hard to work them all out to my benefit: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and my own personal Web site, www.jonathanwilkins.co.uk.