A big noise in creative writing
University of Manchester creative writing graduate Clare Wigfall's debut collection of stories, The Loudest Sound and Nothing, will be published by Faber on 30 August 2007. Described by Tash Aw, author of The Harmony Silk Factory, as, "Unsettling, brooding and beautifully crafted," the stories move backwards and forwards through time and between countries and are linked by feelings of loss and yearning.
Clare was born in Greenwich in 1976 and began writing at an early age. After an early role as assistant and editor to the late President of Mensa, she graduated from The University of Manchester in 1998.
After stints in Prague, Morocco, Spain and Norwich she settled in Prague, where she still lives. As well as teaching creative writing and running a face-painting and clown company and a community figure-drawing workshop, her stories have been published in Prospect, New Writing 10, Tatler, new anthology X-24: unclassified and the Dublin Review and commissioned for Radio 4.
The Loudest Sound and Nothing will be published as a Faber Original paperback, priced £12.99.
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