James Friel's most recent publication is the short story 'Something You Don't Have to Deserve' in The Book of Liverpool from Comma Press.
His most recent novel, The Higher Realm, won the 2006 Ilura Press Fiction Quest. HIs next novel will be A Posthumous Affair, to be published in 2010 by Tupelo Press. His other novels include Left of North, Taking the Veil and Careless Talk. He is currently completeing a book of short stories to be published by bluechrome.
He has also won a Betty Trask Prize, an Authors’ Foundation Award, a Welsh Arts Council Bursary, a storySouth Million Writers Award, and was nominated for the Mail on Sunday/ John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Fiction Prize.
His work has appeared in Blithe House Quarterly, Etchings, Pretext, Pool 1&2, Boomerang, The Writers' Workbook, Time Out, Harpers & Queen, Fable, The Universe, In the Red and Cercles, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and 4's Front Row and Kaleidoscope.
His radio adaptations include The Remains of the Day for the BBC 4; David Hare’s film, Saigon: Year of the Cat; Balzac’s Cousin Bette, as well as Villette, As I Lay Dying, Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable Defeat and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow for BBC Radio 3, and A Pale View of Hills for BBC Radio 4.
He is Programme Leader for the MA in Writing at the Centre for Writing, Liverpool John Moores University, and Visiting Writer at L'Universite de Rouen, and at L'Universite de Francois Rabelais in Tours.
He tutors regularly for both the Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd. He will be holding a One-to One courses at Totliegh Barton 20-25th April 2009