Cathy Galvin

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Cathy Galvin
Born (1959-12-14) 14 December 1959 (age 64)
Coventry, England
OccupationPoet and journalist
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of Leeds
University of Warwick
Notable awards Hawthornden Fellowship
Heinrich Böll residency
Arts Council England DYCP award

Cathy Galvin (born 14 December 1959) is a British poet and journalist. She has published three poetry collections and is co-founder of the Sunday Times Short Story Award. [1] Her journalism has appeared in the Financial Times , The Daily Telegraph , Newsweek , The Sunday Times , and The Tablet [2] where she is a non-executive director. Her work includes interviews with notable British writers including Will Self, [3] Hanif Kureishi, [4] Carol Ann Duffy, [5] and Sebastian Faulks. [6]

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Galvin is the founder and director of the Word Factory, [7]   a writing community and organisation described by The Guardian as "a national organisation supporting excellence in short fiction". [8]  She was the editor of Red, an anthology of new writing published by the bookseller Waterstones. [9]

Biography

Galvin was born in Coventry, England, on 14 December 1959 to parents from Ireland and Yorkshire. She obtained a BA (hons) degree in political studies from the University of Leeds in 1982. In 2015 she obtained an MA in writing from the University of Warwick, where she served as associate editor of the Warwick Review. [10]

Galvin trained as a journalist on the Thomson Training Course in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and worked as reporter on the Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo and the Cambridge Evening News . She later held a variety of senior writing and editing positions on UK publications including Today , the Daily Express , Newsweek , and The Sunday Times , where she served as News Review editor, deputy Magazine editor, and editor of the print and online Chronicle of the Future, whose contributors included Michio Kaku, Maureen Freely, James Murdoch, Marcus Chown, and Robert Winston, Baron Winston. [11]

In 2009 she co-founded the Sunday Times Short Story Award with the former Faber and Faber managing director and chairman Matthew Evans. Her creation of the award led to her founding the Word Factory to promote excellence in short story writing. Word Factory participants have included the writers A. S. Byatt, Neil Gaiman, Tobias Wolff, A. L. Kennedy, Ben Okri, Michael Morpurgo, Deborah Levy, Marina Warner, Yiyun Li, Kevin Barry, David Constantine, Lionel Shriver, and Alexei Sayle.

Galvin has been a judge for various awards, including Ireland’s Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award [12] (with Brigid Hughes and John F. Deane, the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, [13] the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, [14] the Word Factory Apprentice Award, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award.

Galvin is also a founder member of Women In Journalism, has served as a trustee of English PEN and Poet in the City, and is a patron of Visual Verse. [15]

Galvin holds UK and Irish citizenship, and responded as a poet to the Haddon Dixon Repatriation Project to return skulls stolen by ethnologists in the 19th century to Irish west coast cemeteries; [16] part of the resulting work was published in Poetry London (Spring Issue, 2022)). As a poet, she is the recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship, a Heinrich Böll residency on Achill Island, [17] and an Arts Council England DYCP award. Her poetry has been nominated twice for Ireland’s Listowel poetry prize. Her work has appeared in publications including the Morning Star , The London Magazine , Agenda , High Windows, and 14 Magazine.

David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, wrote of her work Black and Blue: “A crown of sonnets seems at first an intractable and even intimidating prospect. When a writer confidently inhabits its spaces the crown becomes an arena of grace. This is such a performance.” [18] Alison Brackenbury wrote in P. N. Review of Galvin’s work Rough Translation that she “translates life into elemental cycles”, [19] and Ian Pople wrote in the Manchester Review of Walking the Coventry Ring Road With Lady Godiva as “a technical tour-de-force combining the Latin Mass with the argot of two-tone”. [20]

Galvin is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Cornwall.

Bibliography

Poetry

Anthology poetry and short story contributions

As editor

As curator

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  1. ↑ Katie Allen (15 September 2009). "Sunday Times launches". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. ↑ Cathy Galvin. "The Tablet: Cathy Galvin". The Tablet. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  3. ↑ Cathy Galvin (29 August 2010). "The long, lanky journey into nowhere". The Times. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  4. ↑ Cathy Galvin (13 December 2012). "Hanif Kureishi: the pariah of suburbia". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  5. ↑ Cathy Galvin (7 February 2010). "Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy on the new language of unlove". The Times. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  6. ↑ Cathy Galvin (23 August 2009). "Sebastian Faulks on the state of the nation". The Times. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  7. ↑ Cathy Galvin (21 October 2013). "My father's words of wisdom". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  8. ↑ Danuta Kean (5 June 2017). "BAME short story prize announces 'rich array of lives' in shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  9. ↑ "Red: The Waterstones Anthology (Hardback)". Waterstones. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  10. ↑ "Alumni and Supporters: Cathy Galvin". Warwick University. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  11. ↑ "Chronicle of the Future: The Panel". Chronicle of the Future. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  12. ↑ Alison Flood (31 May 2013). "Frank O'Connor short story award pits UK authors against international stars". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  13. ↑ Natasha Onwuemezi (6 July 2016). "Greengrass wins £10k Edge Hill Short Story Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  14. ↑ Alison Flood (12 May 2015). "Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize announces long list". Jerwood Arts. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
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  19. ↑ Alison Brackenbury (1 March 2017). "Alison Brackenbury". PN Review. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  20. ↑ Ian Pople (September 2016). "Cathy Galvin, Rough Translation". The Manchester Review. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  21. ↑ Direye Osman (5 March 2015). "Cathy Galvin's Gorgeous Sonnets". HuffPost. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
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