George Green
Non-fiction writer, Short-story writer
About
George Green is a historical novelist and short-story writer. His first novel, Hound (Transworld, 2003), is a re-telling of the ancient Irish saga The Tain. Hawk (Transworld, 2005) is a historical adventure set in Imperial Rome. He has published a number of short stories as well as articles on aspects of mythology, primarily in Gramarye, on crime and Westerns (Cross Cultural Connections, 2012), and contributed chapters on aspects of writing to Wordsmithery (Palgrave, 2007) and Can You Teach It? (OUP, 2020). He is also the co-author of How to Write a Novel and Get Published (Wiley, 2008).
His most recent research project involved several trips to Lithuania, a country with a strong folkloric tradition and in which English is an almost universal second language. Based at Kaunas University and working with the Department of Linguistics, he researched into how young people told stories about the recent Russian occupation, asking which types of stories held most resonance for them, and encouraged and helped them to write down and publish their own and their family’s stories, both true and fictional.
From 1996 until retirement he was employed by the University of Lancaster Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, teaching writing and research skills and supervising research projects. At present he is researching a crime novel set in Ancient Rome, as well as dj-ing Tango sessions as research for a later novel.
Before working in academia, he was employed in the leisure industry, running swimming pools and sports centres.