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ALISON ARMSTRONG
Writer. Painter.
Alison Armstrong is a writer of fiction and non-fiction.
BIO
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Alison Armstrong has been writing for many years, whilst working other jobs and has been long-listed and shortlisted for several prizes/awards. In 2017 and 2023 she won a Northern Writers' Award for fiction and was shortlisted in Harper's Bazaar Short Fiction Prize (2019) and the Bridport Prize (2019) and long-listed for the Nan Shepherd Prize 2019 for non-fiction. 2020 she received a Literature Matters Award from the Royal Society of Literature and a Project Grant from the Arts Council England 2021 for the production of her play. Her work has been supported by New Writing North, the Society of Authors, ACE, the Strachey Trust, Fondation Jan Michalski. She lives near Lancaster. She is working on a landscape memoir on the East Yorkshire Coastline and a short story collection.
