AWARDS & PUBLISHED WORK | lynne-voyce-writer

Competitions and Awards

Awards and competitions that Lynne Voyce has either won or been a prize winner in: Runner Up Cornhill Insurance Short Story Competition, Guildford Book Festival (2001), Winner of The Legend Writing Award (2005), Winner of the Ted Walters International Short Story Competition (2008), Runner Up Ink Tears Press Writing Competition (2010), Runner Up Segora Vignette Competition (2010), Winner of The Calderdale Short Story Competition (2010), Winner of Momaya Review Competition (2010), Winner Infanca Helene James Prize (2011), Finalist in Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition, Third Place in Word Hut 2012 Winter Competition, First Place Flash 500 Autumn 2012, Third place in Southport Writer’s Circle Short Story Competition (2012), Third place Swanezine Competition (2013), Second Place The Henshaw Short Story Competition (2014), Second Place Bethlehem Writer’s Circle (2014), Third Place Sentinel Literary Quarterly Competition (2014), Second Place Sentinel Annual Short Story Competition (2016), Second Prize Writer's Reign (2016)

Short lists/Commendations: Lynne Voyce has been commended and shortlisted in over 100 awards and competitions, including: Frome, Aesthetica Creative Competition, Shrewsbury, HISSAC and Fish. This year Lynne has been short listed and commended in Grace Dieu, H.EBates , Erewash and Fowey Festival competitions. She has been long listed for the Creative Writing Matters Flash Fiction Competition.

Shortlists and Prizes for Novel: Multi-Story First Chapter and Synopsis Critique Prize and Flash 500 Novel Competition.

Books and Anthologies

Lynne Voyce is the author of the short story collection, Kirigami (Ink Tears Press).

Books and anthologies Lynne Voyce has been published in : Break Into Print (Coventry Libraries 2002), Strandline (Hastings Writers Circle, 2006), The Better Craftsman and Other Stories (Leaf Books, 2007), The Light that Remains and Other Stories (Leaf Books, 2007), Islands in Mind (Earlyworks Press, 2007), Cheshire Literature Prize Anthology: Zoo (2010), Spilling Ink Review (2010), Segora Anthology (2010), Momaya Review (2010), Aesthetica Creative Works Annual 2013, Lost and Found, Cheshire Literature Prize Anthology (2013), Henshaw Treats (2015), Patches of Light (Chester University Press, June, 2016)

Other Publications

Other publications that Lynne Voyce's work has appeared in: Magazines and newspapers: Short story in National Hospice Magazine (1993), Short story in Ellesmere Port Pioneer (1993), Short Story in Chester Chronicle (1993), Contribution to article in The Guardian newspaper (2001), Short story in Issue 14 of Raw Edge Magazine (2002), Volume 2 of Libbon Magazine (2006), Writer’s Village Online (2010), Ink Tears Online (2010), Segora (Poetry and Prose) Online 2010, Spilling Ink Online 2010, University of West Wales Online (2011), Eclat Review Online (2012), Word Hut Online (2012), SWC Online (2012) Flash 500 Online (2013), Words with Jam (2013), Five Stop Online and through App (2013), Swanezine (2013), Henshaw Press (2013)., BWC (2014), Sentinel Literary Quarterly (2014), Sentinel Literary Quarterly (2016), Writer's Reign Online (2016), Fictive Dream (2020), Flash Flood Journal - National Flash Fiction Day (2020)

Non Fiction

Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writer, (Unbound Press, May 2019); Being A Working Class Writer (Northbank Talent Website, 2020) Why Flash Fiction is Great for Home Learning - Times Educational Supplement (June 2020)

Commissions

Lynne has been commissioned by the Midlands Reader's Network to work with the Nisha Nisam Reading Group, to create a 3000-4000 word short story for publication. (2020)

Bursaries and Awards

Lynne Voyce has received an Arts Council of England, Creative Ambition Award; a TLC Free Read Bursary; and a Spouting Forth Mentorship with writer Jackie Gay. Lynne is part of Writing West Midlands Teachers 204 Initiative (2016/17) involving teachers who are writers in the region. In 2018-19, Lynne took part in The Common People Project, attended Penguin Write Now Live in London and attended the Northern Literary Salon at Hachette Books.

Speaking Engagements/Projects/Media

The National Writer's Conference (2019); The Birmingham Book Festival (2019); The Wolverhampton Literature Festival (2020); Durham Book Festival, Counter Culture Film - writer & performer (2021); Lorraine ITV, talking about mobile phone usage (Jan, 2022); The University of Oregon Working Class Conference (June 2022)

Lynne is a trustee of the West Midlands Reader's Network.