Author photograph by Edge Hill University

Philippa Holloway
Philippa Holloway’s short fiction is published in the US, Australia, Africa and Europe in publications including Ascent, Bukker Tillibul, New Contrast and Litro, and has received recognition in literary competitions including the Fish Short Story Prize and the Scythe Prize. Her short memoir Energy Crisis was highly commended in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2015, and from this she was commissioned to curate a special feature for the New Welsh Reader on artistic responses to nuclear power stations and landscapes, entitled ‘Power in the Land?’ She visited Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone as research for her PhD, and has recently been appointed Writer in Residence at Hack Green Nuclear Bunker.





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