Melanie Rees

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Melanie is a poet, author and playwright, whose play Drowning Aristotle won the Not Part of Festival's Forever Manchester Award judged by City Life. Salford born and bred, her work has been widely anthologised, including in Salford Stories [Bridge House], a collection honouring Shelagh Delaney. She is a winner of the Family Matters poetry competition, has curated an edition of Live from Worktown’s Worktown Voices, and her poetry collection with Sarah Miller, Selkie Singing at the Passing Place, was runner-up in Saboteur Awards’ Best Collaborative Work category. Her monologue short, A Man Named Lear, was recently produced by Act Your Age, and her plays for Bolton's Standing Together community project have been broadcast on Bolton FM. Melanie co-founded the Pavilion Theatre Company in Bolton, was Drama Co-ordinator for the Salford Young People's University, is an occasional host of Word Central at Manchester Central Library, and has been the special guest poet at the long-established Manchester Poets four times. She is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Salford, a trained counsellor, qualified yoga teacher, and award-winning SEN teacher who has also taught and lived in Australia, India, Israel, Poland and the USA – experiences which infuse her work.

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