Paul Magrs

Paul Magrs is a prolific author responsible for writing hundreds of stories.

Biography
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Childhood
Born in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, on 12 November 1969 to Joy and Alfie. Magrs also had a younger brother, Mark.

Magrs grew up in the Agnews in Newton Aycliffe; this location would later be the inspiration for Phoenix Court as well as appearing (albeit not by name) in some of Magrs semi-biograhpical stories such as Fanboys.

As a young boy, Magrs was surrounded with people who loved to read and thought that being a writer would be "the most fantastic job"; this encouragement lead to young Magrs writing regularly despite his school, Woodham Comprehensive School, attempting to instill more regularly boyish activities in him such as football. As a kid, Magrs felt that everything around him was like science fiction, with his imagination fuelled by the likes of Doctor Who. At the time, the aliens in Doctor Who usually originated on Earth, the foods being packed with mysterious e-numbers, and the very town he lived in being a world of minimalist concrete. Magrs received his first typewriter when he was seven, and began writing with it "not long after". By age ten, he wrote his own Doctor Who novels.

His life wasn't carefree however, as his parents would fight regularly, with them provoking one another. His father would often be abusive. Despite an Australian family moving in to doors down (which provided distractions), Magrs' mother would eventually divorce his father, and she became involved with a new partner, Charlie. Magrs' dad did return to take back his belonging, and at the same time, he stripped Magrs' home of every piece of furniture (save their beds). For the years to come, Magrs lived split between his parents. On Saturdays, Magrs would be at his father's parent's house in South Shields. His mother, on the other hand, decided to move house every few years, often downsizing the family's belongings, including all the stories young Magrs wrote.

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Student life and early works
When Magrs was eighteen, he wrote a puported now lost novel entitled Iris Wildthyme. He began his first year at beginning in 1988, where he studied English Literature and Creative Writing. He returned home at Christmas. When he was out buying presents in Durham, he curiously came across a man selling paperback books, whereupon he saw a large amount of being sold for premium price due to the novels being in very good condition. Upon opening the cover of , he saw that it had his own name written inside. It quickly dawned on Magrs that they were his.

He would get an MA from this course, alongside his friend Paul Cornell. At Lancaster University, he became friends with a woman named Amanda. By 1994, they were living together in a flat on Thistle Street, Edinburgh, while Magrs was doing his PhD these and Amanda was finishing her MA. At this time, Magrs' first novel, Marked for Life, was bought by Chatto and Windus (for a smaller price than just the champange at the launch of their biography of !), though the sale did keep Magrs going for a few months. At the time, Magrs spent time at nightclubs such as CC Blooms hoping to find a partner. While Amanda doubted he would be successful, it was where he met Jeremy Hoad, his partner to this day. Coincidentally, Hoad had just bought a copy of Marked for Life, from a bargain bin Waterstones for 99p; while Magrs was a bit dismayed that his book had been put on sale so quickly, he wasn't too concerned. He later viewed this as the most free period of his life.

Writing career (late 1990s - present)
Since his early twenties, until the early 2010s, Magrs taught in universities: as a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

He worked as an advisor on. -->