Linda Leatherbarrow

Linda Leatherbarrow is a British short story writer and illustrator. Her stories have been published in her collection, Essential Kit (Maia Press 2004) and many magazines including Ambit, Cosmopolitan, Mslexia and Writing Women, and in several anthologies. They have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Biography

Linda Leatherbarrow was born in Dumfries, Scotland, and brought up in England and Scotland. In her early career she created, illustrated, printed and published several limited-edition illustrated books of poems for her Little Bird Press. In 1995 she set up the Haringey Literature Festival and co-ordinated it for three years. She has won 1st Prize of the London Writers Competition three times. In 2001 she won a Bridport Prize and an Asham Award. In 2006 she was given an Arts Council award. Her story Ride was published in Norway by Cappelen in an anthology of British writing for students of English literature and language despite the fact that the story is a single sentence with no full stops at all and is many pages long. It was also published in the anthology Even The Ants Have Names by Diamond Twig 2002.

From a review of Essential Kit: 'In this collection of varied and exquisite short stories, Linda Leatherbarrow brings together for the first time her prize-winning short prose with new and previously unpublished work. A wide-ranging, rich and surprising gallery of characters includes a nineteen-year-old girl leaving home, a talking gorilla in the swinging sixties, a shoe fetishist and a long-distance walker. The prose is lyrical, witty and uplifting, moving and always pertinent - proof that the short story is the perfect literary form for contemporary urban life. These stories display a seriously fresh original talent and are essential reading for short-story lovers everywhere.'

Bibliography

Books

• Between The Lines (Slightly Foxed, 30 Nov 2010) ISBN 9781906562229
• Essential Kit (Maia Press, 20 Oct 2004) ISBN 1904559107
• Glad to wear glasses (glad to have ears) by John Hegley (Author), Linda Leatherbarrow (Illustrator) Andre Deutsch (1990) ISBN 978-0233050355
• Visions of the Bone Idol by John Hegley (Author), Linda Leatherbarrow (Illustrator) Little Bird Press (1984) ASIN: B0016ZKLU2

Prizes and Awards

• 1st Prize The Hay-on-Wye Short Story Prize 2009
• Arts Council Award 2005
• 3rd Prize Bridport Prize 2001
• Asham Award 2001
• 1st Prize London Writers Competition 1992
• 1st Prize London Writers Competition 1991
• 3rd Prize Over21 Magazine Short Story Competition 1988
• 1st Prize London Writers Competition 1987

Contributions to Anthologies

• Stories of Loss and Deception (Hay-on-Wye Short Story Competition Anthology 2010)
• Matter Vol 4 2004 ISBN 0954315022
• Tapestry (Cappelen, Norway 2003) ISBN 8202210046
• Harlot Red: Prize Winning Short Stories by Women (Serpent's Tail December 1, 2002) ISBN 1852428155
• Even the Ants Have Names (Diamond Twig 1 Nov 2002 ISBN 0953919633
• The Nerve (Virago 1998) ISBN 1860495753
• Signals 2 (London Magazine Publications 1999) ISBN 0904388816
• Sleeping Rough: Stories of the Night (Heinemann February 1992) ISBN 0413454010
• British Council: New Writing 8 (Vintage 1999) ISBN 0099545713

Journals

• Slightly Foxed 3 'Distant Harmonies' Autumn 2004 ISBN 9780954826826
• Slightly Foxed 10 'Hooked' Summer 2006 ISBN 9780955198717
• Slightly Foxed 14 'A Rum Do' Summer 2007 ISBN 9780955198762
• Slightly Foxed 18 'How Not To Be a Grandmother' Summer 2008 ISBN 9781906562014
• Slightly Foxed 20 'Do You Mind Me Just Asking?' Winter 2008 ISBN 9781906562052