Lisa Blower

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Lisa Blower
Occupation
  • Short story writer
  • novelist
  • lecturer
Notable works
  • Sitting Ducks (2016)
  • It’s Gone Dark over Bill’s Mother’s (2019)
Notable awardsArnold Bennett Book Prize (2020)
Website
www.lisablower.co.uk

Lisa Blower is a British writer who won the Arnold Bennett Book Prize in 2020 for her short story collection It's Gone Dark over Bill's Mother's.

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Early life

Blower grew up in Stoke-on-Trent. [1]

Career

Blower is a creative writing lecturer at Bangor University. [1]

In 2009, her short story Broken Crockery won the Guardian Weekend's summer short fiction special. [2] She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award for her story Barmouth in 2013. [3] [4]

Her debut novel, Sitting Ducks, was published in 2016 and shortlisted for the Arnold Bennett Book Prize in 2017. [5] Blower's debut short story collection, It's Gone Dark over Bill's Mother's, published in 2019 is set in Stoke-on-Trent. [6] It won the Arnold Bennett Book Prize and was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in 2020. [7] [8] Blower published the novel Pondweed in 2020. [9]

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