Amanda Huggins is the author of All Our Squandered Beauty, which won the 2021 Saboteur Award for Best Novella, as well as three collections of short stories and a Saboteur Award-winning poetry chapbook. She is widely published in newspapers and journals such as the Guardian, Telegraph, Mslexia, Popshot, Tokyo Weekender, Traveller and Wanderlust, and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio.
She has also received numerous awards for her travel writing and short fiction, including the Colm Toibin International Short Story Award 2020, the H E Bates Short Story Prize 2021 and the BGTW New Travel Writer of the Year 2014. She was a runner-up in the Costa Short Story Award 2018 and the Fish Short Story Prize 2021, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, The Alpine Fellowship Award and many others.
Amanda lives in Yorkshire and works as a creative writing tutor and freelance editor. Her forthcoming novella, Crossing the Lines, will be published in December 2021.
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Northern Writers Reading - Amanda Huggins & Sarah Linley / Wed 11 May 2022
7.30PM May 11th 2022 - Fantastic New Fiction Join Marsden regulars Amanda Huggins and Sarah Linley as they read extracts from their latest books and discuss their writing, live in Marsden Library. Amanda Huggins is...
Crossing the Lines - Online Book Launch / Wed 08 Dec 2021
Join Victorina Press for the online launch of Crossing the Lines by Yorkshire author, Amanda Huggins. Crossing the Lines by Amanda Huggins: When Sherman Rook walks into the Jupiter diner, Mollie’s mama is instantly...
Cleckheaton Literary Festival Anthology Launch - Third Event / Sat 15 Dec 2018
Reflections is a rich and diverse collection of prose and poetry, celebrating the legacy of Cleckheaton Literature Festival. The anthology features work from many of the writers who appeared at the festival in 2015 an...