Patricia Grace King ’89, of Durham, U.K., was announced as a winner of the Northern Writers Award.
Established in 2000 by New Writing North, the awards support work-in-progress by new, emerging and established writers across the North of England, helping them develop their work towards publication and navigate their way through the publishing industry.
“To an emerging writer, an award of this kind can often be the difference between carrying on and giving up, and can be a huge boost to confidence as well as providing financial backing,” said past winner and current poet laureate Simon Armitage. “Many writers, like myself, can look back to an award or bursary at an early stage in their career as being the pivotal moment, one that gave them the courage and means to continue.’
King’s novella, Day of All Saints, won the Miami University Novella Prize, while her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Narrative, The Gettysburg Review, and The Florida Review. Learn more about her work and other accolades at patriciagraceking.com
King, a native of North Carolina and past resident of Atlanta, Chicago, Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, Spain and Guatemala, earned a PhD in English from Emory University and an MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. She taught at EMU from 2000 to 2003.
She holds a PhD in Literature from Emory University and has served as the Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and as a Fiction Fellow at Vermont Studio Center. She has lived in Durham and devoted herself full-time to her writing since 2015.
King was a featured author in the 2017-18 Writers Read series. Read more about her work below.
Hey, thank you, EMU, for the shout-out!
We are delighted at your success! Marti Eads, professor of English, tipped us off.