Discipline: Literature – fiction

Carole Burns

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Cardiff Wales, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001, 2002
More: www.caroleburns.com
Carole Burns is a fiction writer, journalist and lecturer. She is co-founder of the xx women’s writing festival. A journalist for more than 20 years, Burns crafted her first book, Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between, from her interviews with 43 of today’s foremost writers, including Colm Tóibín, A.S. Byatt, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anthony Doerr, and Alice McDermott. Published by W.W. Norton, the book was featured or reviewed in The Guardian, The Financial Times, the BBC, National Public Radio, Irish Public Radio, and O: The Oprah Magazine. She continues to interview authors and review books for The Washington Post, and has also written for The New York Times. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and published in Ploughshares, Puerto del Sol, and The Lonely Crowd. She is head of creative writing at the University of Southampton. The Missing Woman is her first collection of stories and the recipient of the Ploughshares John C. Zacharis First Book Award 2015.

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MacDowell

Carole Burns worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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