WRITING CV
Biography
Lynn rekindled her passion for writing after going through a career crisis at the beginning of 2011. She started writing stories and felt a passion and excitement that had long been missing from her professional life.
She saw the initial process as a way of allowing herself the chance to practice, because while she had been an avid blogger for a couple of years, fiction writing was not something she had much experience in, and so she started exploring different kinds of writing, which then led her to start looking for competitions and submission requests.
Since September 2011 she has won two competitions, come second in another and has had a short story and flash fiction story accepted for publication.
Ultimately, Lynn wants to be able to carve herself a career in writing and publishing.
Reviews/Comments
“Thanks so much for taking the time to write us a story, I was really touched by it.” Malcolm Hamilton, Bookshop Stories.
“We are so pleased you entered our Summer Loving competition. The Cod Couple was a worthy winner & stood out from the others.” Andrew Campbell-Kearsay, Brighton Cow.
“Well done with the competition win – the most striking entry in a very good batch.” Kay Green, Earlyworks Press.
Awards & Achievements
- Joint winner of Brighton Cow Summer Loving Short Story Competition 2011 with The Cod Couple.
- Winner of Earlyworks Press Memoirs and Journalism Competition 2011 with The Zombie Robot.
- Second Prize in Author Essentials Winter Short Story Competition 2011 with While His Soul Gently Weeps
Publications
- Short story Warts and All published in Duality 5
- Flash fiction story Glitter published with Ether Books mobile publishing
- Review of Islay Book Festival 2011 for Northings
www.northings.com/2011/09/07/islay-book-festival-2011/
- Review of Art Exhibition for Northings
www.northings.com/2011/08/15/art-exhibition-at-ionad-chaluim-chille-ile/
- Factual story Tickly Tummy published with Bookshop Stories
www.bookshopstories.co.uk/the-stories/tickly-tummy
- Poem To Stand and Stare published with Firebird Poetry
- 75 word paragraph I’m Inadequately Dressed… published with Paragraph Planet
www.paragraphplanet.com/authors.htm
- Self published online travel blog
http://blog.travelpod.com/members/lynnstewart
Education
BA with First Class Honours in Performance
PG Cert in Creative Media Practice
Work Experience
Official contributor for the Highlands & Islands Arts website, Northings.
Previously employed in the role of demonstrator and student support at the University of the West of Scotland, supporting and assisting students with academic writing.
Previously involved in the writing of various short scripts, both film and theatre, including a short theatre script for National Theatre of Scotland’s Five Minute Theatre Festival.
Hi Lynn, congratulations on winning 2nd prize in Author Essential short story competition. I was one of the runners up. I wonder if you know when the anthology will be published. It seems to be taking a long time. I thought it would have been out by now. By the way I am from Scotland as well but have been living in Spain for 13 years Good luck with your writing and other projects..
Hi Mary! I’m not sure about the anthology and haven’t heard anything as yet. I’m assuming they will email us so I just make sure I keep checking and sometimes check the website in case there is any news on there.
Congrats on being runner up and hopefully we’ll see the anthology soon!
Lynn