Tessa McWatt wins the 2018 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award

Tessa McWatt has been awarded the 2018 Eccles British Library Writers Award alongside novelist and short story writer Stuart Evers. The Higher Ed author will be awarded £20,000 to research her upcoming project: a memoir entitled Porous: A Memoir of Race and Stories, in which she will set out to explore the hybridity of her racial and cultural heritage, and to try to understand the social whiteness, political blackness, and cultural duality of the privilege she has.

The Eccles British Library Writer’s Award was set up as part of the Eccles Centre’s charge to promote awareness of the British Library collections relating to the USA, Canada and the Caribbean, and to help facilitate the use of these collections. Acting Head of the Eccles Centre, Dr Cara Rodway, says, ‘in awarding the 2018 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award prizes to Stuart Evers and Tessa McWatt the judges have once again demonstrated that the British Library can support creative and original research. With projects which are set to range across the US, Canada and the Caribbean, this year’s award highlights the breadth and depth of the Library’s wonderful collections on North America, and their immense value in providing a foundation for writers of enormous talent.'

Their residency will start in January 2018.

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Tessa McWatt

RRP: £14.99 Pub date: 27 Aug 2015 Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Cover view

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