Sally Cline
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Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, 2000-03
Advisory Fellow, 2003-05
Project Fellow, 2003/04
Associate Fellow, 2004/05
Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, 2005/06
Advisory Fellow, 2006-09
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Sally Cline was born in London, holds degrees and masters from Durham University and Lancaster University, taught for many years at Cambridge University, has lived in Cambridge for 27 years, and in 2004 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her writing from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. In 2007 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2004/05 Sally organised Writers' Pool, the Royal Literary Fund's innovative mentoring scheme for emerging writers. For several years she has been a judge and mentor on the Arts Council funded Escalator programme to help talented emerging writers. She is also currently a judge and mentor for the successful Gold Dust mentoring scheme. Sally is an award-winning biographer and short story writer. She has recently completed her ninth book and third literary biography, a ground-breaking 'double biography' called Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett: Memories and Myths, forthcoming late 2009. Her previous biographies were Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise (2002) and Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John (1997), both published by John Murray. She is currently co-writing (with RLF Fellow Carole Angier) the first stand-alone book on Life Writing in the UK. Called 'The Arvon Book of Life Writing', it will cover autobiography, memoir and biography and will be the first in an Arvon series of books on writing (novels, short stories, creative non-fiction, poetry, etc.), which she and Carole will edit. It will be published in Spring 2010.
In 2004 Sally was the recipient of the Hawthornden Fellowship for Writing. That same year she won the Hosking Houses Trust Fellowship for a Woman Writer over 40. Her short fiction has won the BBC Short Story Contest, a Raconteur Fiction Prize, has been shortlisted for the Asham Short Story Award, and won several Arts Council bursaries. She was a prize winner in the UK New London Radio Playwriting Contest and has scripted, co-produced and presented three radio documentaries based on her books.
Her non-fiction books include Couples: Scene from the Inside (Little Brown), Lifting the Taboo: Women Death and Dying (Little Brown), Women Celibacy and Passion (Andre Deutsch), Just Desserts: Women and Food (Andre Deutsch), Reflecting Men at Twice their Natural Size (Andre Deutsch), and Memoirs of Emma Courtney [Mary Hays] (editor/introd.) (Pandora). For her biographies and general non-fiction she has won awards from the Society of Authors, Arts Council, Eastern Arts, British Academy, AHRB, and several fellowships from Princeton University, and the University of Texas (the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center). She has read and discussed her work at literary festivals including Hay on Wye, Cheltenham, Ways with Words, Dartington, the Sole Bay Literature Festival, as well as at the Biography Club, of which she is a key member. She has served on the Women's Committee of the Writers' Guild, and is a member of PEN, the Society of Authors, the Royal Society of Literature, the Fawcett Club and the newly established Women Writers Salon which has great speakers and fine food. A former Fleet street journalist and international stage director, Sally has taught Lifewriting, Writing for Radio, Writing Short Stories, Social and Political Science, Drama, English Literature, Basic Skills, Writing Skills and Creative Writing for colleges, universities, workshops and prisons. Sally has worked as an RLF Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, where she is now the Writer in Residence and mentors for the MA in Creative Writing.
Website:
http://www.johnmurray.co.uk
