During her 2009 MacDowell residency, Samantha Harvey worked on her second novel, All is Song (Jonathan Cape, 2012). She is a Reader in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Her first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction and won the 2009 Betty Trask Prize. It was on the longlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.
In 2024, Harvey won the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Samantha Harvey
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Bath, Somerset, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009
More:
www.samanthaharvey.com
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
All Is Song (Novel)
Studios
Garland
Samantha Harvey worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…