Welcome
A.L.Kennedy was born in Dundee. She lived for almost 30 years in Glasgow and now stays in North Essex.
She has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Award, the Costa Prize, The Heinrich Heine Preis, the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rees Prize.
She has twice been included on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
She has written 9 novels, 6 short story collections, 3 books of non-fiction and 3 books for children. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Akademie der Kunst.
She also writes for the stage, screen, TV and has created an extensive body of radio work including documentaries, monologues, dramas and essays. She also performs occasionally in one person shows and as a stand up comic.
Her Wikipedia entry is increasingly unreliable. She does not own a parrot or a Luwak. She does not own a pet.
Her books appear in the US with Amazon/Houghton Mifflin and in Canada with Anansi. Many of her books have been translated into a number of languages.
In other news
Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Almost Entirely Unplanned Adventure
February 16, 2017
Serious Sweet
May 19, 2016
The Drosten’s Curse
July 14, 2015
The Great War
July 3, 2014
All The Rage
February 8, 2014
Doctor Who: The Death Pit (Time Trips)
December 5, 2013
On Writing
March 7, 2013
The Blue Book
August 4, 2011
What Becomes
August 5, 2010
Day
April 5, 2007
Tutoring and mentoring
A.L. Kennedy has lectured, tutored and mentored writers for over three decades, working with organisations like the Curtis Brown Academy, the Faber Academy, the Arvon Foundation, Moniack Mhor, The Toronto International Festival of Authors, the Victoria Festival of Authors, Verb Wellington, the Irish Writers Centre and many more. She has also spent many years lecturing part time at St Andrews and then Warwick Universities.
She will soon be offering a very limited number of opportunities to join in small, flexible month-long courses online, one-off online sessions and there may be a possibility of mentoring.
If you are interested in one or more of these opportunities please let us know at – and we will put you on our mailing list.
Meanwhile, happy writing – what we do matters more than ever in these dark and unempathetic times.
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