sandjensen11
sandjensen11
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Jul 1, 2011 (14 years) |
5 years | 5 | 6 |
- Forum role
- Member
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Jul 1, 2011 (14 years)
- Last activity
- 5 years
- Topics created
- 5
- Replies created
- 6
Bio
I have over 40 short story and flash fiction publications, including in: World Literature Today, The Irish Times, Descant, AGNI, The Fiddlehead and others. I was born in South Africa and have British and Canadian citizenship.
My work has received a number of awards including winning the Grindstone 2020 International Novel Prize, Bridport Prize's 2019 Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a First Novel, the 2012 bosque Fiction Competition and the 2011 J.G. Farrell award for best novel-in-progress. I have been awarded Professional Writer’s Grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Arts Council of Ireland and Arts Council England. I have recently finished a comic coming-of-age novel based on my time as a teenager in Co. Donegal, Ireland.
I was a guest writer and panellist at the 12th, 13th and 15th International Conference on the Short Story (Little Rock, Arkansas, Austria and Lisbon); an invited participant and workshop leader at The Galle Literary Festival, Sri Lanka in 2011 and 2018 and a seven-time participant of the Sirenland Writer’s Conference in Positano, Italy. I attended the 2019 Autobiography and Fiction with Electric Literature residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Banff Centre’s Wired Writing Studio in 2011/2012.
In my spare time I run Animal Welfare Advocates for Bosnia, a small group raising awareness and funds to stop animal suffering.
I live with my partner, David Crean and my foundling cat, Rónán.
My writing mentors are Barbara Turner-Vesselago, who teaches Freefall writing - without her support and guidance I would not be writing; also: Deena Metzger, Dani Shapiro, Marina Endicott and Jim Shepard.
More information: http://www.sandrajensen.net
Specialties: Fiction, creative non-fiction, flash
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