Ally Wilkes

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Ally Wilkes
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NationalityBritish
Period2020–present
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Ally Wilkes is an LGBTQ English author of horror novels and short stories. [1] She also writes under the name A. V. Wilkes. [2] Wilkes studied law at the University of Oxford and practised as a criminal barrister for eleven years. She currently lives in Greenwich, London. [3]

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Wilkes has published two novels, All the White Spaces (2022) and Where the Dead Wait (2023), both alternate history polar exploration stories set in early twentieth-century Antarctica and nineteenth-century Arctic respectively. [2] She said she has always been fascinated by the early polar expeditions and "the unbeatable combination of harsh and deadly terrain, isolation, claustrophobia". [4]

Wilkes has also published several works of short fiction and is Book Reviews Editor for the British horror website, Horrified. [1] [2] [4] All the White Spaces was nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. [5]

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Novels

Short fiction

References

  1. 1 2 "A Point of Pride: Interview with Ally Wilkes". Horror Writers Association . 24 June 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Pastorella, Bob (24 November 2023). "Look Out For … Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes". This Is Horror. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Brewer, Robert Lee (6 December 2023). "Ally Wilkes: On the Difficulty of the Second Novel". Writer's Digest . Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  4. 1 2 Ladzinski, Jo (25 January 2022). "Author to Author with Ally Wilkes (All the White Spaces)". Jo Writes Fantasy. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  5. 1 2 "The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot". Bram Stoker Award . Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  6. ↑ Duckert, Lowell (15 April 2022). "Masculinity and the Polar Gothic: On Ally Wilkes's All the White Spaces". Los Angeles Review of Books . Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  7. ↑ Slayton, John (December 2023). "Where the Dead Wait: A Novel". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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