Clare Fisher

I'm a writer of contemporary literary fiction and creative non-fiction. My first novel, All the Good Things, was published by Viking in 2017 and won a Betty Trask Award. My short story collection, How the Light Gets In, was published in 2018 by Influx Press and longlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Award and the International Dylan Thomas Prize. My second collection of short fiction, The Moon is Trending, was published by Salt in 2023. My work has been translated into over six languages and has been published in journals such as TOLKA, The London Magazine, Lithub, Gertrude Press, and 3:AM. 

In 2023, I completed a practice-led PhD in Creative Writing, funded by the AHRC, at the University of Leeds. Titled, Awkward Positions: Experiments with Failure in Creative Writing, it uses queer theory and experimental writing methods to illuminate and subvert narratives of success and failure in contemporary publishing and Creative Writing Studies. It pays particular attention to the paradoxes of trying and failing to write from and with the body by placing critical and creative methodologies of reading and writing into productively awkward relation to one another. 

I have taught Creative Writing at the University of Leeds, Queen Mary University London, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Leeds Arts University; I've also taught in schools, art galleries, community centres, and in a women's prison. I was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the School of Law, University of Leeds, 2019 - 21.