The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2020
Congratulations to the following writers who have been selected for the 2020 Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize.
Nick Clark
Writing Prize Winner
N G F Clark is a writer based in Leeds in the north of England. By day, he makes his living telling other people’s stories. By night he tells his own. Perhaps that’s why his fictions are often half-submerged things, shadow-cast and dream-tinted. He has hiked and travelled extensively through the UK, Europe, Nepal, Canada, and further afield, and his fiction is often immersed in a deep sense of place and folklore. His stories have appeared in Tethered by Letters, Eyelands, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter: @ngfclark
Maya Catherine Popa
Writing Prize Runner Up
Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith, recipient of the 2020 North American Book prize, as well as two chapbooks, You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave and The Bees Have Been Canceled (PBS Summer Choice). She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Oxford Poetry Society, and Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, among others. Popa is the Poetry Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly, and an English teacher and director of the Creative Writing Program at the Nightingale-Bamford school in NYC, where she oversees visiting writers, workshops, and readings. She is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, writing on the role of wonder in poetry. She holds degrees from Oxford University, where she was a Clarendon Scholar, NYU, and Barnard College, Columbia University.
Emma Venables
Writing Prize Runner Up
Emma Venables’ short and flash fiction has been published in magazines and journals such as: Mslexia, Strix, MIR Online, Lunate, and Barren Magazine. She is currently writing a short story collection, exploring the experiences of women living in Berlin from 1945-1990. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has taught Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and Liverpool Hope University. Twitter: @EmmaMVenables Website: www.emmavenables.com