WENDY VAIZEY’s fiction has appeared in national newspaper magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Published stories include ‘Dave’, ‘Brief Conceit’, ‘My Scandalous Sex Life’, ‘The Suspect Taverna’, ‘The Rubber Dress’, ‘The Greyhound’ and ‘The Year Out’. Her novel Independence is represented by the Jessica Craig Literary Agency.
She also publishes academic research, with interests in Iris Murdoch, John Banville and psychoanalytical criticism. She has been awarded a Faber Fellowship and an Arts Council METAL residency exploring use of the digital in the arts, and she has been shortlisted for other prizes such as Myriad Editions and Escalator.
She has taught Creative Writing at the Open University and Kingston University, and is Course Director of the Distance Learning Creative Writing MA and MFA programmes at Kingston University (London). She has worked in the City of London and as a broadsheet contributor and editor and has an MA and PhD from the University of East Anglia.
- Areas of expertise: literary & commercial fiction (inc. some genres), short stories, memoir, biography & narrative non-fiction, young adult
- Location: London & Hertfordshire
- Possible meeting place: British Library
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