1st July, 2016

Carolyn Jess-Cooke wins in the Northern Writers’ Awards

Congratulations to Carolyn Jess-Cooke, whose short story ‘Septembers’ won the Fiction Category of this year’s Northern Writers’ Awards. The awards are held annually by New Writing North to recognise writing talent in the North of England.
Judge Euan Thorneycroft had this to say about ‘Septembers’:
This was actually the first entry that I read, and that can sometimes be a bit of curse for an author … But when I first read this, I knew it was going to be certainly up there as one of the best works in the field … This is an excellent story.
Carolyn’s 2014 poetry collection, Boom!, was published by Seren.