Lucy Charlotte Dawes

Lucy Charlotte Dawes

Lucy Durneen’s short stories, poetry and non-fiction have been published across the UK, Europe, America and Asia in journals including World Literature Today, Hotel Amerika, The Amorist, and Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and Highly Commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize, while her non-fiction has been adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and listed as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2017. Her first short story collection, Wild Gestures, was published in 2017 and won Best Short Story Collection at the Saboteur Awards, London. Her chapbook of poetry, Shipwrecks, (Or, Men who do not love me explain love to me) is to be published with Dancing Girl Press in 2020.)

She is a Teaching Associate in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education and a bye fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.