Helen Sedgwick is an author of literary fiction, science fiction and crime, a literary editor, and a research physicist.Author Interviews, Helen Sedgwick, authorinterviews.co.uk (2019)
Life
Sedgwick was born in London and studied physics at the University of Bristol.Scotsman, Helen Sedgwick discusses her first novel, www.scotsman.com, Aug 16 (2016) She gained a PhD in physics from the University of EdinburghEdinburgh International Book Festival Author biography, www.edbookfest.co.uk (2016) and an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.Glasgow University Alumni, www.gla.ac.uk
After leaving physics research to become a freelance writer,BBC, Helen Sedgwick biography, www.bbc.co.uk, Feb 24 (2013) Sedgwick worked as the joint managing director of Cargo Publishing from 2014 to 2015,The Bookseller, Tasker and Sedgwick become Cargo joint MDs, www.thebookseller.com, March 12 (2014) Sedgwick was also the managing editor of Gutter magazine and worked as a creative writing tutor.Scottish Book trust Helen Sedgwick on the Live Literature Database, www.scottishbooktrust.com
She released her first novel in 2016, The Comet Seekers.The New York Times Book Review, The Comet Seekers: A ghost story leaps through time and space, www.nytimes.com, Dec 2 (2016)The Herald, Face to Face: Author Helen Sedgwick on her first novel The Comet Seekers and the consoling scale of the universe, www.heraldscotland.com, Sept 12 (2016)The Irish Times, The Comet Seekers Review: The Patterns In The Stars, www.irishtimes.com, Aug 29 (2016) This was followed by her second novel, The Growing Season,The Guardian, The Growing Season Review, www.theguardian.com, Sept 29 (2017) which was shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year in Scotland's National Book Awards 2018.Scottish Review of Books, Saltire Literary Awards Shortlist Announced, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org Oct 23 (2018) Sedgwick's first crime novel was When The Dead Come Calling,The Scotsman, Book Review: When The Dead Come Calling, www.scotsman.com, Feb 4 (2020) the opening book in the Burrowhead Mysteries crime trilogy.The Bookseller, Sedgwick's Atmospheric Crime Trilogy to Point Blank, www.thebookseller.com March 1 (2018) She cites her scientific background as a big influence on her writing.BBC Radio 4, Helen Sedgwick on Woman's Hour, www.bbc.co.uk (2016)
Sedgwick is a member of The Society of AuthorsThe Society of Authors Helen Sedgwick, www.societyofauthors.org and the Crime Writers' Association.The Crime Writers Association Helen Sedgwick, thecwa.co.uk She lives in Tain, in Ross-shire in the Scottish HighlandsRoss-shire Journal, Seven Days Guide, www.whatson-north.co.uk, Jan 3 (2020) with her partner and their daughter.Crime Review Countdown with Helen Sedgwick, www.crimereview.co.uk (2020)
Awards
2012 Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award.Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardees, www.scottishbooktrust.com (2012) 2016 Glamour Book of the Year: The Comet Seekers.Glamour, The 10 Best Novels of 2016, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk Dec 2 (2016) 2016 Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month: The Comet Seekers. 2018 Scotland's National Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year shortlist: The Growing Season.Saltire Society 2018 shortlist , www.saltiresociety.org.uk (2018) 2021 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship.Creative Scotland Helen Sedgwick appointed 2021 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow, www.creativescotland.com (2021)
Bibliography
Novels
The Comet Seekers (2016) The Growing Season (2017) When the Dead Come Calling (2020) Where the Missing Gather (2021) What Doesn't Break Us (2022)
Short stories
Source:Helen Sedgwick, Publications, www.helensedgwick.com
The Archaeologist of Akrotiri, New Writing Scotland 35 (2017) The Largest Circle, 404 INK Issue 1 (2016) Quantum Gravity Or: The Pigmy Marmoset and the Prefabricated Concrete Bungalow, I Am Because You Are (2015) Duality, Out there (2014) Precognitive Abilities, Songs of Other Places, New Writing Scotland 32 (2014)
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