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Introducing: Greg Forrester
- 7th February 2018
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Greg Forrester is an author of fantastic magical realism short stories. Born and raised in County Durham, Greg initially dreamed of becoming a teacher. After changing his mind, Greg received a BA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Sunderland, and a masters degree from Newcastle University.
Greg’s first writing attempt happened in secondary school when he produced four chapters of a ‘clear Lord of the Rings rip-off’. Since then, his writing has been greatly influenced by his favourite books – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, Skellig by David Almond, and Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind. Greg says that he builds the magical realism stories from his own experiences of how he sees the world.
A short Q&A with Greg Forrester can be seen below:
Q: If you could travel in the past, which one of the great writers would you like to meet and why?
A: Possibly not that far into the past, but I’d love to meet Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As a magical realist writer, the opportunity to speak to the man central to its global rise would be a dream come true.
Q: Do you have a favourite quote? (from a book, movie, song, speech…)
A: I love quotes – my friends tell me it’s all I post on Facebook – but my favourites are ‘I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees’ by Pablo Neruda, and ‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Q: If you could teleport yourself anywhere, real or fictional, where would it be and why?
A: Yubaba’s bathhouse from Spirited Away
Two of Greg’s stories, Candlelight and The Blue Rose, are available to read on our website.
Greg currently lives in the North East of England. To learn more about Greg’s writing visit his blog.