Lynda Clark (author) explained

Lynda Clark
Birth Date:	29 October 1981
Birth Place:	Nottingham, England
Alma Mater:	Nottingham Trent University
Website:	https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/

Lynda Clark (born 29 October 1981) is an author and creator of interactive fiction. Her short story, “Ghillie’s Mum” won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada in 2018,^[1] and was shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award in 2019.^[2] Her debut novel, Beyond Kidding, was published by Fairlight Books in October 2019.^[3]

Biography

Born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Clark completed a BA in English Literature, followed by an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University.^[4] She has worked as a bookseller at Waterstones and in the video game industry as a writer and producer. Currently she is based in Dundee, Scotland where she works as a Research and Development Fellow in Narrative and Play at InGAME: Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise, University of Dundee.^[5]

Clark has the rare neurological disorder, Spasmodic Dysphonia, an incurable condition which affects speech.^[6]

Awards and shortlistings

2017 The Cambridge Short Story Prize (shortlist) for Grandma’s Feast Day
2018 Regional winner, Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada for Ghillie's Mum
2019 BBC National Short Story Award (shortlist) for Ghillie's Mum
2019 New Media Writing Prize (shortlist) for The Memory Archivist ^[7]
2019 Winner, BL Labs Artistic Award for The Memory Archivist
2020 Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) Tom-Gallon Trust Award (shortlist) for Ghillie's Mum

Works

Novels

Beyond Kidding, 2019,

Short stories

Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories, 2021,

Interactive fiction

The Memory Archivist, 2019

Non-fiction

How I Ended the Wrestling Match Between My Brain and My Throat, 2013, The Guardian
Why Final Fantasy 15’s beautiful food and ridiculous culinary preparation is the best thing in the game, 2017, Games Radar & Official XBox Magazine
It's a Kind of Magic: The Tricks of Interactive Fiction, The Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, VIII (2017), 55-65
Before Westworld was Mudfog – Charles Dickens’ surprisingly modern dystopia, 2018, The Conversation & Smithsonian Magazine

External links

Lynda Clark's creator page on Itch.io
Reviews

Miki Lentin (14 September 2020). "REVIEW OF LYNDA CLARK’S ‘BEYOND KIDDING ’ BY MIKI LENTIN". The Mechanics’ Institute Review (MIR).

Miki Lentin (6 May 2021). "REVIEW: DREAMING IN QUANTUM BY LYNDA CLARK". The Mechanics’ Institute Review (MIR).

Stuart Kelly (1 June 2021). "Book reviews: Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories by Lynda Clark | Man Hating Psycho by Iphgenia Baal". The Scotsman.

Notes and References

Web site: Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 Regional Winners . https://web.archive.org/web/20190305073207/https://www.commonwealthwriters.org/commonwealth-short-story-prize-2018-regional-winners/. dead. 2019-03-05. Commonwealth Writers. 2019-03-05. 2019-11-14.
Web site: BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award - BBC NSSA Shortlist Profiles. https://web.archive.org/web/20191108194923/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2PzFpFNHsR7rdnbwpC4N9tN/bbc-nssa-shortlist-profiles. dead. 2019-11-08. 2019-11-08. 2019-11-14.
Web site: Beyond Kidding by Lynda Clark — Literary Sci-Fi . https://web.archive.org/web/20191009175351/https://www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/beyond-kidding/. dead. 2019-10-09. Fairlight Books. 2019-10-09. 2019-11-14.
Web site: Lynda Clark - A Long Fiction Author. Fairlight Books. en-GB. 2019-11-15.
Web site: About InGAME. InGAME. en-GB. 2019-11-14.
News: How I ended the wrestling match between my brain and my throat. Clark. Lynda. 2013-08-11. The Guardian. 2019-11-14. en-GB. 0261-3077.
Web site: Archive. 2021-04-01. New Media Writing Prize. en-US.