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In conversation with award-winning writer, Jessica Andrews: ‘Self-belief, and feeling like your story matters, even if it doesn’t seem literary to you, is so important.’

12th February 20207th April 2020  Rebecca Clark

Winner of the Portico Prize 2020 for her debut novel Saltwater, writer Jessica Andrews talks to our arts contributor Rebecca Clark about her journey into writing, the joy of podcasts, the importance of space in relation to creativity, representation in the arts for working class northern writers and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Elizabeth Day, Grapevine, Hattie Crisell, Jenny Offill, Jessica Andrews, Kit de Waal, Penelope Lively, Portico Prize, Saltwater, Sceptre, Sunderland, Tender Buttons

Salt Water by Jessica Andrews – a beautifully poetic pastiche of fiction & autobiography

25th November 201925th November 2019  Rebecca Clark

Jessica Andrews’ debut, Saltwater, is a coming of age novel about a young woman’s longing to leave her hometown and what she discovers beyond its borders when she finally does.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Jessica Andrews, Saltwater, Sunderland
  • Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti: an exuberant, insightful short story collection
    By Laetitia Erskine
  • Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews – a transporting, visceral second novel
    By Rebecca Clark
  • Life’s A Butch & extracts from An Attempt At Exhausting An Undergraduate Essay by JP Seabright
    By JP Seabright
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