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I've been following this one for several days on Twitter and Facebook, and it's now made the national press:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...-a-Dylan-Thomas-story-under-her-own-name.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...-a-Dylan-Thomas-story-under-her-own-name.html
Dr Joanne Benford, a teacher of creative writing, is accused of multiple instances of copying the works of other writers and passing them off as her own over two decades.
One of her short fiction collections, Down By The Water, features a story called Holiday Memory. It appears to be a verbatim copy of a radio play of the same name written by Dylan Thomas and first broadcast on the BBC in 1946.
The allegations came to light after Alex Keegan, an author of short fiction, discovered a work called Postcards From BalloonLand in another book by Dr Benford, called Coming Up For Air.
Mr Keegan claims that the story is his own, based on his own children and a family trip to Disneyland. He alleges that the story was reprinted word-for-word in Dr Benford’s collection.