Linda Cracknell
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Fellow at University of Stirling, 2009-12
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Linda Cracknell is a writer of prose and radio drama. Her two collections of short fiction - Life Drawing (NWP, 2000) and The Searching Glance (Salt, 2008) - both featured on award lists. Among her plays for BBC Radio 4 is The Best Snow for Skiing, based on the life of Valda Trevlyn Grieve, wife of poet Hugh MacDiarmid, which was broadcast in July 2005. Winning a prestigious Creative Scotland award in 2007 launched Linda into writing non-fiction. She wrote about a series of journeys on foot, each of which followed a story or theme and resulted in an essay collection. She is editor of a non-fiction anthology on the wild places of Britain and Ireland, A Wilder Vein (forthcoming from Two Ravens Press). Linda has tutored many writing courses and workshops including for the Arvon Foundation, and has facilitated creative writing as part of a number of major school projects from learning about constellations to devising interpretation for a long distance footpath. She was a mentor on the British Council/University of Lancaster's 'Crossing Borders' project (2003-2006) in which British writers worked with writers from African countries. Linda lives in Highland Perthshire.
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http://lindacracknell.blogspot.com Photograph Credit: Phil Horey
