Carl Tighe

Carl Tighe teaches Creative Writing at the University of Derby and is a successful writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His first fiction collection Rejoice! & Other Stories was nominated for the David Higham Prize and short-listed for The Irish Times Award; his second collection Pax: Variations won him the City Life Writer of the Year 2000 Award. His first novel Burning Worm , was short-listed for the 2001 Whitbread Award and won the Author's Club Award. His non-fiction includes: The...See more

Carl Tighe teaches Creative Writing at the University of Derby and is a successful writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His first fiction collection Rejoice! & Other Stories was nominated for the David Higham Prize and short-listed for The Irish Times Award; his second collection Pax: Variations won him the City Life Writer of the Year 2000 Award. His first novel Burning Worm , was short-listed for the 2001 Whitbread Award and won the Author's Club Award. His non-fiction includes: The Politics of Literature and Gdansk , which was nominated for the Silver PEN Award. His most recent publication was the novel KssssS: A Tale of Sex, Money and Alien Invasion. See less