Peter Kalu is well known as a poet, novelist, playwright and script writer. He started writing as a member of the Moss Side Write black writers workshop and has had five novels, two film scripts and three theatre plays produced to date. In 2002 he won the Kodak/Liverpool Film Festival Award for his script, No Trace. In March 2003 he won the BBC/Contact Theatre's Dangeorus Comedy Script Award for his play, Pants. He has lived in Hulme/ Moss Side/ Didsbury, Manchester; Edinburgh, Scotland; Leeds, Yorkshire; Lagos and Abia State (briefly), Nigeria; and San Francisco, USA. He trained in Kung Fu, regularly practising at the Wu Shu Kwan kung fu centre on the corner of Princess Rd and Alexander Rd, Manchester. He is married with four children. Before turning to writing he worked as a translator (of French and Spanish into English), a glass collector in a Leeds pub called the Shoulder of Mutton, and as a street busker around the North West. He has a degree in Law and further qualifications in software programming, Internet coding (HTML) and Marketing. He runs a Hulme based Carnival Band called Moko Jumbi (Ghosts of the Gods) which takes to the streets at Manchester Carnival every year in July on three feet high stilts! He is learning to tightrope walk.
Novels:
Yard Dogs (thriller) The X Press September 2002
Diary of a Househusband (romantic comedy) The X Press 1998
Black Star Rising (sci-fi) The X Press June 1998
Professor X ( thriller) The X Press October 1995.
Lick Shot ( thriller) The X Press December 1993.
Forthcoming:
Little Jack Horner (thriller) Suitcase Press November 2007
Theatre plays: The Bay (duologue) Contact Theatre, Manchester 2006
Pants (comedy) Contact Theatre, Manchester, 2003
Gabrielle (monologue, with Shirley May) Pumphouse Museum 2002
Downfall, Manchester University Theatre, Manchester 1995.
Taxi, Manchester Town Hall 1994.
Radio plays:
Xango's Challenge broadcast by BBC Radio 3, August 12th 1995
Afrogoth, launched BBC Radio 4's Young Playwrights Festival 1991
Film:
No Trace filmed 2003. Release date: October 2007
Revenge Is Ras Malai filmed 2003.
Poetry:
No Trace monologues for Lychee Lounge, Green Room Manchester October 2003
Rekindled monologues for Manchester Museum Commision June 2003
Poetry monologues for Commonwealth Games 'aftershock' project 2002
Mongrel Moon (own collection) published by Mongrel Press, November 1996
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