Freda Churches won the 2004
Fish Short Story Prize with “Spoonface”,
a competition judged by Roddy Doyle. She grew up in Denny, Scotland. Freda left
school at 16, and for many years, she worked as a sewing machinist at John
Collier’s, then as a care assistant in a home for the elderly (which has had a
great influence on her writing), after which she attended the University of
Stirling as a mature student, where she studied English literature. She took a
bit of a risk by submitting a piece of creative writing for her thesis, but she
ended up with top grades. Freda Churches then did an M Phil in Creative Writing
at Glasgow University, and her tutor there has compared her favourably with
Flannery O’Connor. Freda has had poems and short stories published in
“Chapman”, “MsLexia”, “Cencatrus”, “Review” (with a story called “Stanley”),
and “Nerve Magazine”. She was also a runner-up in the 2002 Fish Short Story Prize
with “The Visit”. Some of her work has been broadcast on BBC radio. A poem
called “Dream Robbers”, about compulsory medication, was published in the
“Living Rights” anthology. Philip Hobsbaum has described her as the best writer
he has come across in Glasgow in the last decade. Freda’s writing has won her a
contract with the agents Gregory & Company. Freda Churches is the mother of
3 children (all now adult), and lives with her husband, a Siamese cat, and a
whippet. She is currently polishing off her first novel, “The Caretaker’s
Daughter”.
Juice Baby
– another Freda Churches short story from the 2002 Fish Short Story Prize
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