Vanessa Gebbie
Vanessa Gebbie has won awards for fiction, non fiction and poetry. She is the Welsh author of ten diverse books including one novel, five collections of short form fictions and two poetry collections. Her novel, The Coward’s Tale (Bloomsbury) was a Financial Times Novel of the Year. Her latest publication is a translation into German of her illustrated novella in flash, Ed’s Wife and Other Creatures.
She is an experienced teacher, facilitator and mentor and is contributing editor of Short Circuit: Guide to the Art of the Short Story (Salt Publishing, editions i and ii). She is one half of Writing Mill partnership, with the writer Cynan Jones. Her writing has been used in IGCSE papers, is on the curriculum in the USA, has been commissioned by BBC Radio, for anthologies, and is translated into several languages.
She has been invited to tutor for the Arvon Foundation, New Writing South, Spread the Word, The Word Factory, Gladstone’s Library and literary events and festivals in the UK and abroad, schools and colleges.
Her creative work has been supported by the Arts Council, by residencies at Gladstone’s Library in the UK and Anam Cara Writers and Artists’ Retreat in Ireland, and by a Hawthornden Fellowship.
Photo by Claire McNamee.