Speaker Background
My name is Rob Keeley and I’m a writer of short stories, novels and drama, especially for children and a family audience. My books for children have been honoured with a win at the Georgina Hawtrey-Woore Awards and have been longlisted for the inaugural Bath Children's Novel Award and the International Rubery Book Award, Highly Commended for the Independent Author Book Award and nominated for the People's Book Prize.
I have now published sixteen books for children and they have been honoured with a win at the Georgina Hawtrey-Woore Awards and have been longlisted for the inaugural Bath Children's Novel Award and the International Rubery Book Award, Highly Commended for the Independent Author Book Award and nominated for the People's Book Prize. My first novel for adults, a murder mystery called Death At Friar's Inn, was published in 2022.
Credits and Experiences
My other credits include writing for the radio series Chain Gang and Newsjack for BBC Radio 4 Extra and fiction and non-fiction for various magazines. In 2016 and 2017 I was a judge for the IGGY and Litro Young Writers' Prize. I am a patron of the Children's Media Foundation. In 2019 my one-act stage comedy Mr Everyone was listed for the Alfred Bradley and Kenneth Branagh Awards.
During lockdown I was Children's Writer in Residence at the Stay at Home Literary Festival, and held online school workshops as part of Liverpool Writes. My first novel for adults, a murder mystery called Death At Friar's Inn, was published in 2022.
Speaker Topics
- Careers in writing
- Disability issues
- Creative Writing sessions
