{{short description|British poet and short story writer (born 1973)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Angela Readman | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = Angela Readman | birth_date = 1973 | birth_place = Middlesbrough, England, UK | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Poet, Author | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Angela Readman''' (born 1973) is a British poet and short story writer.
Her debut story collection ''Don't Try This at Home'' was published by And Other Stories in 2015. She won The Rubery Book Prize and was shortlisted in the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She also writes poetry, and her collection ''The Book of Tides'' was published by Nine Arches in 2016. ''Something Like Breathing'', Readman's first novel, was published by And Other Stories in 2019.
==Early life== Readman grew up in Middlesbrough, following university in Manchester she relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne to complete a film studies MA. She completed a masters in creative writing at the University of Northumbria in 2000, and won a Waterstones prize for her distinctive poetry and prose.<ref>[http://www.northernpublishers.co.uk/authors/Angela_Readman Angela Readman] {{dead link|date=January 2025}}</ref>
==Awards== Readman won the International Rubery Book Award in 2015 for her book of short stories, ''Don't Try This at Home''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2015 Winners|url=https://www.ruberybookaward.com/2015-winners.html|access-date=2022-01-21|website=Rubery Book Awards {{!}} Book Contest|language=en}}</ref> The book was also short listed in The Edge Hill short story prize. Her story "The Keeper of the Jackalopes" won the Costa Short Story Award (2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-short-story-award/ |title=Costa Short Story Award |publisher=Costa Book Awards |author= |date= |accessdate=25 August 2014}}</ref> and her story ''Don't Try This At Home'' was shortlisted for the same competition the previous year. In 2013, Readman won first prize in the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition, judged by Kathleen Jamie.<ref>In 2014, she won The Charles Casuey Poetry Competition. [http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_active.php Mslexia Poetry Competition] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927141610/http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_active.php |date=27 September 2013 }}</ref> She won the National Flash Fiction Contest, and the Essex Poetry Prize in 2012. She was placed second in the first Short Story Competition in 2011. She has won New Writing North awards,<ref>[http://www.newwritingnorth.com/publicity/publicity.php?section=375 New Writing North awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821235730/http://www.newwritingnorth.com/publicity/publicity.php?section=375 |date=21 August 2007 }}</ref> and won the Ragged Raven longer poems competition.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20071227072644/http://www.raggedraven.co.uk/competition.html</ref> In 2005, she won The Biscuit Poetry competition and publication of a collection ''Sex with Elvis''.<ref>[http://www.literaturenortheast.co.uk/events/EventDetail-713 Sex with Elvis] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112144425/http://www.literaturenortheast.co.uk/events/EventDetail-713 |date=12 November 2007 }}</ref> In 2016, she won The Mslexia Short Story Prize.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} In 2018, she came first place in The Antpn Chekhov Award for Short Fiction.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
==Work== Readman has published three full length collections of poetry (of 60 pages or more) and several shorter collections of work (including the bi-lingual ''Hard Core'', with Finnish poet Tapani Kinnunen, translated into Finnish.) She was involved with ''The Flesh of the Bear'' Poetry exchange in 2004, which was a collaboration of Finnish poets and poets from the North East of England, including Bob Beagrie, Andy Willoughby, Esa Hirvonen, and Kalle Niinikangas.<ref>[http://www.routemagazine.co.uk/routev7/page.asp?idno=241 The Flesh of the Bear] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824092219/http://www.routemagazine.co.uk/routev7/page.asp?idno=241 |date=24 August 2007 }}</ref> In 2005, she edited ''Newcastle Stories'' (for Comma Press)<ref>[http://www.commapress.co.uk/?section=books&page=newcastleStories Newcastle Stories] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814111158/http://www.commapress.co.uk/?section=books&page=newcastleStories |date=14 August 2007 }}</ref> and accepted a post teaching creative writing at the University of Northumbria.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
Her work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including London Magazine, Staple, Ambit and Mslexia.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
On 31 December 2007, Frieda Hughes printed the poem ''Housewife'' from the ''Strip'' collection in her regular Times newspaper column<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110517074539/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article3110735.ece Frieda Hughes publishes Angela Readman poem in the Times newspaper]</ref>
== Novels ==
* (2019) ''Something Like Breathing''. And Other Stories, UK. {{ISBN|9781911508304}}
==Poetry== *''Bunny Girls'' (Nine Arches Press) 2022 *''The Book of Tides'' (Nine Arches Press) 2016 *''Strip'' (Salt Publishing) 2007 *''Hard Core'' (Ek Zuban) 2006 *''Sex with Elvis'' (Biscuit Publishing) 2005 *''Colours/Colors'' (Diamond Twig) 2000 *''Unholy Trinity'' (Iron Press) 2001
==Anthologies== *''Hallelujah for 50ft Women'' (Bloodaxe, 2015) *''The Bath Short Story Award Anthology'' (2015) *''Unthology 5'' (Unthanks, 2014) *''Once Upon There Was a Traveller'' (the Asham award winners anthology; Virago, 2013) *''Root'' (Iron Press, 2013) *''The Bristol Short Story Prize'' (2012) *''Unthology 3'' (Unthanked Books, 2012) *''The Robin Hood Book'' (Caparison, 2012) *''Magnetic North'' (New Writing North, 2005) *''Smelter'' (Mudfog) 2004 *''The Flesh of the Bear'' (Ek Zuban) *''Under the Bridge'' (University of Northumbria Press) 2000
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website|http://www.accidentalpoet.co.uk}} *[http://www.saltpublishing.com Salt Publishing] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071026185350/http://www.ekzuban.co.uk/ Ek zuban Publishing]
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