Clare Allan is the author of “Poppy Shakespeare”.
Her work has been published in “The Guardian” and several magazines. In 2002,
Clare Allan won the “Harpers & Queen”/Orange for Fiction short story
competition with a tale called “The Meeting”, the story of a friendship between
2 women in a psychiatric hospital (and therefore possibly related to “Poppy
Shakespeare” – indeed, the novel was inspired by Clare Allan’s own experience
of being a patient in the mental health system for a 3rd of her
life). “Poppy Shakespeare” was shortlisted for the 2006 Guardian First Book
Award. Clare Allan has lived in London for the past 10 years.
Back to
Reality – an excellent Clare Allan article for “The Guardian”
The
unfair smoking ban will lead to fuming on the wards – another excellent
Clare Allan article
Inspiration
– Clare Allan writes frankly and brilliantly about the experiences that led her
to write “Poppy Shakespeare”. Incredibly, the fact that she regarded herself as
a writer was regarded as a symptom of her mental illness, even though she’d had
articles published in “The Guardian”
Clare
Allan interview – published by Bloomsbury in the US
A
bit of a chat with Clare Allan – Alicia Cox’s interview with Clare
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