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Category Archives: awards and prizes
Writing for Site-Specific Theatre
I’d always wanted to collaborate on a site-specific piece, and when Nutshell’s director Kate Nelson asked me to write a play for her allotment for the Edinburgh Fringe, I jumped. Partly in excitement, partly in terror. Terror because we’d be … Continue reading
Tutor’s novel in progress shortlisted for international prize
A novel in progress by Lane Ashfeldt has been shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize 2011. There are six books on the shortlist and the winner is yet to be announced. Publication forms part of the prize for the … Continue reading
Sarah Bakewell wins 2011 Duff Cooper prize
Sarah Bakewell, associate lecturer for Creative writing (A215), was announced the winner of the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize on 22 February. Critically acclaimed, her biography of Montaigne, How to Live: A life of Montaigne, was previously one of only three … Continue reading
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Amy Sackville wins major fiction prize
Amy Sackville, Associate Lecturer on A215 Creative Writing, has won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for her first novel The Still Point. The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, was founded in honour of the writer John Llewellyn Rhys, who was killed … Continue reading
Creative writing lecturer makes awards shortlist
Sarah Bakewell, Associate Lecturer on A215 Creative Writing, is one of only three people to make it onto the Costa Biography Book Award shortlist for 2010. How To Live a Life of Montaigne is the first full life of Montaigne in … Continue reading