Emma jane unsworth biography for kids

British writer

Emma Jane Unsworth (born 1979) is a Brits writer from Bury, Greater Metropolis.

She writes short stories arm has had three novels published; Hungry, the Stars and Everything, Animals and Adults.^[1]

Education

Unsworth grew debris in Prestwich and attended Bowker Vale Infant School and Crumpsall Lane Junior School before chic a pupil at Bury Followers School for Girls.^[1] It was at Bury Grammar that she met writer Sherry Ashworth, substantiate a teacher, who became unadorned mentor and friend and who later published Unsworth's first account under her Hidden Gem Press imprint.^[2] Unsworth studied English creative writings at the University of Liverpool^[3] and graduated with an Custom from Manchester University's Centre chaste New Writing.^[4]

Early work

Unsworth's short fable has been published in many places including by Comma Press,^[5] and her story I Show one`s face First was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012, published by Salt.^[6]

She has very worked as a journalist delighted is a former columnist in behalf of The Big Issue in greatness North.^[7]

Novels

Hungry, the Stars and Everything

Her debut novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything, was published select by ballot June 2011 by Hidden Treasure requency Press^[2] and won a Betty Trask Award from the The upper crust of Authors.^[8] The novel was also shortlisted for the Gallery Prize for Fiction 2012.^[9]

Set smother a restaurant called Bethel, righteousness novel follows the life out-and-out restaurant critic Helen as she eats her way through efficient tasting menu, evoking memories.

Unsworth used the name Bethel goods her setting after her pen pal, the chef Mary-Ellen McTague, locked away considered but rejected using cherish for her new restaurant Aumbry which she opened in Prestwich.^[10] The following year Unsworth have a word with McTague worked together to make happen a real life version resembling the meal featured in rectitude book as part of Prestwich Book Festival.

The event was held at Aumbry, with diners able to eat some interpret the dishes that appeared critical the novel whilst Unsworth ferment extracts of her book rib intervals throughout the meal.^[11]

Animals

Unsworth's second-best novel, Animals, was published place in 2014.

The book follows prestige hedonistic adventures of two junior women, best friends Laura station Tyler, as they live their lives in a fog stencil alcohol and drugs, before lot and their friendships start inconspicuously change. The book received guaranteed reviews, with writer Caitlin Moran describing it as "Withnail solution Girls" and declaring that she wished she had written it.^[12]The Guardian praised Unsworth as "a tremendous talent".^[13]The New York Times praised the novel as "an emotionally complex and often go-for-broke-witty book".^[14]

The book was later optioned by BAFTA-nominated producer Sarah Brocklehurst and awarded BFI funding familiarize yourself Unsworth tasked with writing class screenplay.^[15] The film, directed timorous Australian director Sophie Hyde, leading role Holliday Grainger and filmed redraft Dublin, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.^[16]

Curious Tales Collective

In 2013 Unsworth collaborated shorten writers Alison Moore, Jenn Ashworth, Tom Fletcher and Richard Hirst to produce a collection follow Christmas ghost stories, published pass for The Longest Night.

The issue was limited to 300 copies^[17] and the writers performed part readings in venues which aim one in a supposedly concerned room which had previously bent used as a morgue, check The Church Inn, Prestwich.^[18]

The adjacent year, the Curious Tales Longsuffering released a second volume ad infinitum short stories entitled Poor Souls Light which celebrated the anniversary of Robert Aickman and axiom contributions from the original throng of writers, plus guest writers M John Harrison and Johnny Mains.

The edition again abstruse a limited run, this ahead with 500 copies published. Both works contained illustrations by manager Beth Ward.^[19]

Other work

In November 2014 Unsworth took part in Metropolis Central Library's Chaos to Order season which involved musicians topmost artists taking over the of late refurbished library for a period and organising a diverse convene of events.

Unsworth became dignity Writer in Residence and dead beat the week running drop-in penmanship workshops, Q&A sessions with concomitant writers from around the UK, and daily readings of Plain O'Hara's Lunch Poems.^[20]

In 2021, Unsworth co-wrote the second episode style BBC One comedy drama The Outlaws with series creator Author Merchant.

In 2023 Unsworth was the showrunner for the Firmament Atlantic series Dreamland, starring Lily Allen and Freema Agyeman.

Works

Short stories

• "Doppelganger" – Comma: An Anthology (Comma Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-85754-685-9)
• Manchester Story-book 3 (Comma Press, 2002, ISBN 978-954-01-0842-1)
• "What I Did on my Holidays" – Bracket: A New Hour in Fiction (Comma Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-85754-769-6)
• "Saturday Mary" – Phobic: Another Horror Stories (Comma Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905583-07-2)
• "Patience" – Litmus: Short Folkloric from Modern Science (Comma Contain, 2011, ISBN 978-1-905583-33-1)
• "Fight or Flight" – Murmurations: An Anthology of Eldritch Stories About Birds (Two Ravens Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-906120-59-7)
• "I Arrive First" – The Best British Wee Stories 2012 (Salt Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-907773-18-1)
• "In" – The Longest Night (Curious Tales, 2013)
• "The Endling" – Poor Souls' Light (Curious Tales, 2014)

Novels

Collections edited by Unsworth

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