Claire Collison

Claire Collison was a photographer and arts editor before focusing on writing. Her first novel, Treading Water, was a finalist in the Dundee Book Prize; her poetry and short stories are included in anthologies, and have won various competitions, including Woman’s Own, and Virago/Marie Claire. Claire currently teaches creative writing at the Mary Ward Centre, and facilitates creative writing and arts projects in diverse settings, including galleries, rivers and lidos. She has been a visual literacy facilitator for The Photographers’ Gallery, and was recently Tweet Poet in Residence at the Barbican. She's worked with schools on the Thames Festival “Rivers of The World” project. Claire was one of the first recipients of the Max Reinhardt Literacy Awards.