Alice Jolly
Alice Jolly is the author of A Saint in Swindon, published by Fairlight Books in April 2020.
Alice is an established author and educator in creative writing at Oxford University. Her most recent novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile was published in 2018 by Unbound. It was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize, was on the longlist for the Ondaatje Prize and was also selected as a Walter Scott Prize recommended novel. Alice has also won the Pen Ackerley Prize for her memoir and the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for one of her short stories.
Her title, A Saint in Swindon, is a unique book: a collaborative work of fiction based upon an idea created by readers in Swindon and supported by the Swindon Spring Festival. The basis for this project was devised by Artswords, a Literature Development programme, linked to Swindon libraries, which wanted to bring author and readers together, to ‘close the circle’ and enable readers to be both the commissioners and eventual consumers of a work of new literature. In June 2019, Alice met members of the Artswords Reading Group in Swindon and the process began.
Read more about Alice Jolly and A Saint in Swindon here or visit her website here.
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