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Hello! I'm Amanda, a writer and Escalator 2023/24 and Laura Kinsella Foundation mentorship winner.

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I have been an obsessive reader and writer since I was a child, thanks to Stowmarket library and the mobile bus that rolled around the villages.


At nineteen, I left Suffolk's wide horizons to study a BA in Writing & Media at Middlesex University, graduating with first class honours in 2004. But I couldn't stay away for long and after a year of backpacking, I returned to rural Suffolk, where I found writing work in marketing and public relations organisations. Eighteen years later, as a forty-year-old mother and a freelance copywriter, I returned virtually to Middlesex University to complete a distance-learning MA in Novel Writing. I graduated with a distinction.

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I'm now hard at work completing the novel I started on my master's degree, with support from the National Centre of Writing's talent development scheme, Escalator, and my wonderful mentor Ashley Hickson-Lovence. 

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My polyphonic novel aims to give rural working-class women a voice while addressing the commodification of women and nature alike in contemporary rural Suffolk.

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ESCALATOR 2022-23

20th December 2021

Each year, the National Centre for Writing seeks ambitious, challenging, unconventional and affecting new voices in fiction writing from the East of England for its Escalator Talent Development Programme. I was one of the five Highly Commended entrants for their 2022 intake.

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SHEROES IN QUARANTINE PART II

14th October 2020

Sheroes in Quarantine was Lon-art’s first online exhibition dedicated to highlighting women’s issues and roles during the Covid-19 social crisis. 'Alone for One Morning', a poem written two months after schools closed, was included in the Motherhood category.

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