Vanessa gebbie biography

Vanessa Gebbieis the author of ten diverse books including one novel, five collections of short fiction and two poetry collections. She has won awards for fiction, non fiction and poetry.

Her latest publication is Nothing to Worry About, from Flash International Short Short Story Press, at Chester University.

Vanessa gebbie biography

She is contributing editor of Short Circuit: Guide to the Art of the Short Story (Salt Publishing, editions i and ii),  and her work has been commissioned by BBC Radio, for anthologies, and is translated into several languages. 

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She is an experienced teacher, facilitator and mentor, and often supports the writers studying on the Curtis Brown Creative short story course.

Her work has been supported by an Arts Council Grant for the Arts, by residencies at Gladstone’s Library in the UK and Anam Cara Writers and Artists’ Retreat in Ireland, and by a Hawthornden Fellowship. She is a trustee of New Writing South. 

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Her book, 51 and a Half - games, id