Michael Stewart is a multi-award winning writer, born and brought up in Salford, who moved to Yorkshire in 1995 and is now based in Bradford.
He is the author of four novels, two short story collections, two poetry collections, and numerous plays for radio and theatre. Michael is Editor-in-Chief of Grist Books and the Director of the Brontë Writing Centre in Haworth.
His debut novel, King Crow, was published in January 2011 by Bluemoose Books. In October 2011, the book was awarded the Not the Booker prize by The Guardian newspaper, and has garnered many excellent reviews. Read more here.
Michael was the winner of the BBC Short Range competition in 2002, the BBC Alfred Bradley Award in 2003, the King’s Cross Award for New Writing in 2004, and the H. E. Bates Award for Short Fiction in 2019.
He has written several full-length stage plays, one of which, Karry Owky, was joint winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing (2019). His plays have been performed in Bradford, Leeds, Manchester, London, and extensively throughout the country. His radio play Excluded was shortlisted for the Imison Award 2008. Space Circus, a co-written play for Chol Theatre, was shortlisted for the Brian Way 2009. He was writer-in-residence at Theatre in the Mill in Bradford (2005-2008).
Couples, his first collection of poetry, was published by Valley Press on Valentine’s Day 2013. More info here.
Michael is also the creator of the Brontë Stones project, four monumental stones situated in the landscape between the birthplace and the parsonage, inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Kay.
He has appeared extensively across mainstream media including BBC Countryfile, BBC Breakfast and several Channel Four and Five arts programmes.
