simonmbrooks

Award-winning British storyteller Simon Brooks has captivated people all over New England and in other parts of the USA. But Simon began life as a photographer and writer. I studied photography at the Herefordshire College of Art and Design in the 1980's when the photography course first began (on the first day we had to build our own lockers). Leaving the college I began work as an assistant general practice photographer shooting weddings, portraits, industrial and catalog work. I did my own solo work in portraiture and worked free lance with the BBC. I also did work for Survival International, Lea & Perrins and several London boroughs. My work has also been exhibited and published in books. Most of my published written work is poetry and now retold folk tales, and I have had some adult fiction published. My first book, "Under the Oaken Bough," a collection of folk and fairy tales was released in 2018, published by Parkhurst Brothers, to great reviews. I am currently working on two children's books. I have recorded many audio books and also produced four storytelling CDs and an audio of my retelling of The Epic of Gilgamesh. I have performed at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee; and at Timpanogos in Utah, Stone Soup in South Carolina, and at the Florida Storytelling Festival in January, 2020.