Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Notes Towards Recovery
- Publisher
- Latitude 46 Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2019
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Contemporary Women, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988989082
- Publish Date
- Mar 2019
- List Price
- $20
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Description
Notes Towards Recovery, is a short story collection that explores loss and the spaces around loss. At the centre of these stories are everyday women who must navigate these spaces and their shifting boundaries, often redefining themselves in the process.
About the author
Louise Ells combined random jobs (chef, roofer, co-pilot on a submarine) with years of travel before earning an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, and a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University. Louise has taught grammar, poetry, and fiction, and presented at academic conferences in London, Cambridge, and Vienna. She works for Cambridge Programmes, teaching at Churchill College, Cambridge, for two weeks every summer. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2017. She lives in North Bay.
Awards
- Winner, Hawthornden Writing Fellowship
- Winner, Reading Alice Munro, Research Conference
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