I’m a writer. I write. I have always written since the day I learnt how to thread words together, casting lines on and off with full stops and commas. Before that I was a storyteller. Sometimes I still am. 

Published Writing and Awards:

Published Work:

• What the Bear Said, Issue 87, Mslexia Magazine, September 2020
• Life in Lockdown, Womankind Magazine, 2020
• Telling it Together, Macmillan (web), 2019
• Creative Possibilities, Macmillan (web), 2018
• Why Storytelling is Important, IH Magazine, 2017
• Theatre Without Walls, Yes Magazine, 2015.
• Threads (Cheval 5 anthology), Parthian Press, 2012.
• The Missionary (poem), Antagonist Magazine, 2009.
• Departure and Return (In Her Element Anthology), Honno Press, 2008.
• Song of the Veal Calf, Respect for Animals Anthology, 1998.

Awards: 

• 2021 Shortlisted The Caledonia Novel Award
• 2020 Winner of Jericho Writers’  Friday Night Live Award, Summer Festival of Writing.
• 2017 Longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Award.
• 2015 Longlisted for the Bath Novel Award.
• 2013 Literature Wales New Welsh Writers Bursary Award.
• 2011/12 Arts Council of Wales Award: Research/Training for Writing in Health and Wellbeing.
• 2010 The Cultural Leadership Partnership Placement.
• 2009 Literature Wales Mentorship Programme.

© Carys Shannon, September 2020.