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the meaning of the word "gratuitous".)”<ref>[http://www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk/attack.htm</ref> The subsequent Workington Dynamo (2008) follows a more |
the meaning of the word "gratuitous".)”<ref>[http://www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk/attack.htm]</ref> The subsequent Workington Dynamo (2008) follows a more |
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Young Dougie Grimton is after his cousin Kerry and the result is a sweet but tangy element |
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amidst the picaresque madness.”<ref>[http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-peoples-republic-of-workington/</ref> |
amidst the picaresque madness.”<ref>[http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-peoples-republic-of-workington/]</ref> |
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In 1999 Nixon led the developments for the UK’s first full-time higher education course in |
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Professional Writing, a programme he continues to lead. <ref>[http://www.nwkcollege.ac.uk/courses/our-courses/course-information.aspx?ID=T3D107P</ref> |
Professional Writing, a programme he continues to lead. <ref>[http://www.nwkcollege.ac.uk/courses/our-courses/course-information.aspx?ID=T3D107P]</ref> |
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Neil Nixon (born Workington, England), is an author, journalist
and academic. He has combined a career in education with writing
books, articles, scripts and comedy material. Nixon’s published
works include titles on the paranormal, popular music, football and two
novels published under the name of Stanley Manly. In 1999 he founded
the UK’s first full-time higher educational course in Professional Writing. Nixon’s scripts
include material for television and radio. His radio play Mr Lennon, broadcast in 2001, was nominated
for a Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Single Drama. The play imagines the life of
John Lennon if The Beatles had failed to secure a record deal.
Nixon was a regular contributor to the ‘‘Fortean Studies’’ series of books produced by Fortean
Times magazine, offering a series of essentially sceptical papers exploring UFOlogy from the
perspective of social science. In this regard Nixon’s perspective in notably sympathetic, his paper in
‘‘Fortean Studies Volume 6’’ being called “They’re Not all Lunatics on the Fringe” examined the
meaning and fulfilment experienced by members of UFO cults. His book ‘‘UFOs’’ contained a chapter
called “Astounding Tales,’’ citing four cases, including 1976 Tehran UFO incident as a challenge to
Nixon’s comedy and fiction writing has included material for most the UK’s leading adult humour
comics including Viz (comics), Gas (comics), Brain Damage (comics) and Poot! (comics) as
well as journalism and two novels under the name of Stanley Manly. The first of these, Raiders of
the Low Forehead (1999) formed part of the launch offer of Attack!! Books, the Spank the
Monkey website noting: “It's less of a novel than a series of sketches with the slightest of narrative
threads holding them together: all short punchy chapters, full of crap puns, relentless internal
rhymes and blatantly obvious storytelling. (After the book's 14th sex scene, Vince and Sharon discuss
the meaning of the word "gratuitous".)”[3] The subsequent Workington Dynamo (2008) follows a more
formal novel structure, the 3AM Literary Review noting: “a hetero love story for a grrl as well
as the soccer club, and his wimmin are a violent counter blast to the rich, thin tory-sucking
anti-feminists that currently seem to think that fat poor people shouldn’t be allowed to live.
Young Dougie Grimton is after his cousin Kerry and the result is a sweet but tangy element
amidst the picaresque madness.”[4]
In 1999 Nixon led the developments for the UK’s first full-time higher education course in
Professional Writing, a programme he continues to lead. [5]
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