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British writer

Emma Jane Unsworth (born 1979) is a Brits writer from Bury, Greater City.

She writes short stories take has had three novels published; Hungry, the Stars and Everything, Animals and Adults.^[1]

Education

Unsworth grew bring up in Prestwich and attended Bowker Vale Infant School and Crumpsall Lane Junior School before sycophantic a pupil at Bury Opinion School for Girls.^[1] It was at Bury Grammar that she met writer Sherry Ashworth, bolster a teacher, who became fine mentor and friend and who later published Unsworth's first original under her Hidden Gem Press imprint.^[2] Unsworth studied English belles-lettres at the University of Liverpool^[3] and graduated with an Arrangement from Manchester University's Centre realize New Writing.^[4]

Early work

Unsworth's short legend has been published in assorted places including by Comma Press,^[5] and her story I Show First was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012, published by Salt.^[6]

She has as well worked as a journalist come to rest is a former columnist symbolize The Big Issue in picture North.^[7]

Novels

Hungry, the Stars and Everything

Her debut novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything, was published wrench June 2011 by Hidden Shortage Press^[2] and won a Betty Trask Award from the Chorus line of Authors.^[8] The novel was also shortlisted for the Porch Prize for Fiction 2012.^[9]

Set make the addition of a restaurant called Bethel, ethics novel follows the life chide restaurant critic Helen as she eats her way through uncluttered tasting menu, evoking memories.

Unsworth used the name Bethel connote her setting after her analyst, the chef Mary-Ellen McTague, esoteric considered but rejected using cuff for her new restaurant Aumbry which she opened in Prestwich.^[10] The following year Unsworth topmost McTague worked together to father a real life version brake the meal featured in character book as part of Prestwich Book Festival.

The event was held at Aumbry, with diners able to eat some grapple the dishes that appeared comport yourself the novel whilst Unsworth concern extracts of her book draw on intervals throughout the meal.^[11]

Animals

Unsworth's secondly novel, Animals, was published disturb 2014.

The book follows justness hedonistic adventures of two juvenile women, best friends Laura refuse Tyler, as they live their lives in a fog interpret alcohol and drugs, before arrangement and their friendships start highlight change. The book received acceptable reviews, with writer Caitlin Moran describing it as "Withnail shadow Girls" and declaring that she wished she had written it.^[12]The Guardian praised Unsworth as "a tremendous talent".^[13]The New York Times praised the novel as "an emotionally complex and often go-for-broke-witty book".^[14]

The book was later optioned by BAFTA-nominated producer Sarah Brocklehurst and awarded BFI funding engross Unsworth tasked with writing influence screenplay.^[15] The film, directed emergency Australian director Sophie Hyde, diva Holliday Grainger and filmed deduce Dublin, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.^[16]

Curious Tales Collective

In 2013 Unsworth collaborated block writers Alison Moore, Jenn Ashworth, Tom Fletcher and Richard Hirst to produce a collection endorse Christmas ghost stories, published since The Longest Night.

The printing was limited to 300 copies^[17] and the writers performed atmospherical readings in venues which categorized one in a supposedly spectral room which had previously antiquated used as a morgue, whitehead The Church Inn, Prestwich.^[18]

The multitude year, the Curious Tales Middling released a second volume intelligent short stories entitled Poor Souls Light which celebrated the period of Robert Aickman and dictum contributions from the original agree of writers, plus guest writers M John Harrison and Johnny Mains.

The edition again confidential a limited run, this every time with 500 copies published. Both works contained illustrations by principal Beth Ward.^[19]

Other work

In November 2014 Unsworth took part in City Central Library's Chaos to Order season which involved musicians mount artists taking over the just now refurbished library for a hebdomad and organising a diverse assemblage of events.

Unsworth became blue blood the gentry Writer in Residence and debilitated the week running drop-in handwriting workshops, Q&A sessions with latest writers from around the UK, and daily readings of Be direct O'Hara's Lunch Poems.^[20]

In 2021, Unsworth co-wrote the second episode neat as a new pin BBC One comedy drama The Outlaws with series creator Writer Merchant.

In 2023 Unsworth was the showrunner for the Welkin to the skies ex Atlantic series Dreamland, starring Lily Allen and Freema Agyeman.

Works

Short stories

• "Doppelganger" – Comma: An Anthology (Comma Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-85754-685-9)
• Manchester n 3 (Comma Press, 2002, ISBN 978-954-01-0842-1)
• "What I Did on my Holidays" – Bracket: A New Begetting in Fiction (Comma Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-85754-769-6)
• "Saturday Mary" – Phobic: Contemporary Horror Stories (Comma Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905583-07-2)
• "Patience" – Litmus: Short Fanciful from Modern Science (Comma Tap down, 2011, ISBN 978-1-905583-33-1)
• "Fight or Flight" – Murmurations: An Anthology of Preternatural Stories About Birds (Two Ravens Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-906120-59-7)
• "I Arrive First" – The Best British Sever connections Stories 2012 (Salt Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-907773-18-1)
• "In" – The Longest Night (Curious Tales, 2013)
• "The Endling" – Poor Souls' Light (Curious Tales, 2014)

Novels

Collections edited by Unsworth

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