Kevan ManwaringKevan Manwaring won the Bardic Chair of Caer Badon (Bath) in 1998 and became a professional storyteller in 2000. He is a founding member of Fire Springs and per-forms with his partner, Chantelle Smith, in the duo Bríghíd's Flame. He is the author of he Bardic Handbook (2006), The Way of Awen: journey of a bard (2010); Desiring Dragons: creativity, imagination and the writer's quest (2014); Ox-fordshire Folk Tales (2012), Northamptonshire Folk Tales (2013), Lost Islands: inventing Avalon, destroying Eden (2010), the Windsmith Elegy fantasy series (2004-12), and over a dozen collections of poetry. He is the editor of Ballad Tales (2017) and blogs and tweets as the Bardic Academic. Read More Read Less