Emma Sweeney
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Emma Sweeney studied English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Her teaching and writing career has taken her as far a field as South East Asia, Japan and India. She lectures in Creative Writing at New York University - London, and at the Open University.
Emma has won various prizes for her writing including an Arts Council Award and a Royal Literary Fund Bursary. She was also a recent Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, and has been short-listed for various prestigious awards including the David Wong Fellowship, the International Fish Prize and the Asham Award (Britain’s foremost short story prize for women writers).
You get time to take yourself seriously as a writer ... I still workshop my work with a couple of people I met on the first creative writing course [that] I did ...
Emma is currently working on her second novel and is represented by Greene and Heaton Literary Agency.
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Get Writing! Boot Camp August 23-29, 2010 (Mon-Sun)
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