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As a national magazine editor and creative writing tutor, he loves sharing the secrets of making prose sing and sprinkling your work with the magic fairy dust that will make readers laugh, cry and feel absurdly happy with the world.
He's still as fascinated by the creative process as he was when he started writing, and as a tutor, he gets a huge buzz from helping students discover that it's actually very simple to turn good writing into great writing.
He would have said it's not rocket science, but one of the two rules of journalism, along with never to pay for anything if you can help it, is to avoid clichés like the plague.
Like his creative writing students, you'll find working with him satisfying, inspirational and fun, and the end result will be a book you can be proud of.
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Certifications
- Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature
Work experience
Self-employed
Geoff's 16 books include three novels and bestselling bike adventure books about epic journeys from India to the UK, Chile to Alaska, around Australia and around the world.
A top UK producer is currently in talks with a national TV channel about turning his latest novel, The Butler's Son, into a series; after which Geoff plans to stop using the national lottery as his main retirement plan.
He writes the only motorbike column in a UK national newspaper, the Daily Mirror, which is surprising considering that his columns are a desperate attempt to disguise the fact that in spite of riding motorbikes all over the planet, he's still not sure how they work.
He's also the editor of Microlight Flying magazine, in spite of the fact that he knows even less about aeroplanes than he does about motorbikes.
He's either won or been shortlisted for UK travel writer of the year nine times. He's also a former Irish travel writer of the year and a former Mexican Government European travel writer of the year, although he's still trying to work out exactly what that means, and in 2005 was given a Golden Pen award by the Croatian Tourist Board for the best worldwide feature or broadcast on Zagreb.
Outside travel, he's also a former Northern Ireland journalist of the year, a former UK feature writer of the year, and has won three Northern Ireland features journalist of the year awards and two UK newspaper design awards.
He's a tutor with the writing school Mightier Than The Sword, where he teaches the art of great writing to journalists, PR and marketing professionals and speechwriters.
He lives in Belfast with his wife Cate, a cat called Cat, a hammock and the ghost of a flatulent Great Dane. His hobbies are volleyball, flying, motorbikes, tennis, skiing and worrying about the price of fish.
Comments on Geoff’s travel writing:
Geoff Hill has travel writing genius in his very soul.
Julie Shmueli and David Rosenberg, organisers of Travelex UK travel writing awards
Geoff Hill has an outstanding writing talent with a wicked sense of fun. Brilliant writing, genuinely and originally funny, and a supremely entertaining read.
Martyn Lewis CBE, broadcaster
Geoff is one of the most talented travel writers ever to cross my path.
Melissa Shales
Chairman, British Guild of Travel Writers
Praise for the novel Smith
A funny and moving story of salvation. Hill has a voice all his own - both lyrical and lunatic - which casts the world in a new light. Few first novels achieve as much.
Mark Sanderson, Independent on Sunday
Dialogue so real, it's frightening. For a first novel, it is breathtakingly good.
Casey Evans, Irish Tatler
Praise for Way to Go, on riding a motorbike from India to the UK
He has wonderful views on life, a great turn of phrase and a great sense of humour. His off-beat observations and zany outlook on life are laugh-out-loud funny.
John Mullin, The Independent
Praise for The Road to Gobblers Knob, on a ride from Chile to Alaska
The most inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny travelogue of the last fifty years.
Garbhan Downey, Verbal Magazine
A brilliant read, a book I simply couldn’t put down.
Dave Myers, BBC’s Hairy Biker
Praise for Anyway, Where Was I? Geoff Hill's alternative A-Z of the world
Geoff Hill is a comic genius. I laughed until I cried, my nose bled and I lost control of my bowels. I may well have to kill him when I meet him.
Patrick Taylor, author of New York Times best seller An Irish Country Doctor
Praise for In Clancy’s Boots, following the journey of the first round the world rider in 1912-13
The funniest travel writer in print.
Tom Adair, The Scotsman
Brilliant. At times laugh-out-loud funny, and at others intensely moving, which is part of Geoff’s genius.
Brian Page, Mensa magazine
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