Holly Dawson

PLAYS

The Loveletters of Lydia and Maynard (2021)
Helena Bonham Carter & Tobias Menzies

The Lives of Lytton Strachey (2022)
Jonathan Pryce & Alex Jennings

Greetings My Dear Ghost:
Virginia Woolf in her own words (2023)
Joanna Scanlon, Miranda Richardson & Anjana Vasan

The Beginning and End of Everything
F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (2025)
James Norton & Lucy Boynton

PUBLISHED
PIECES

‘From Memory to Meaning’ - Observer
’In the Rhododendrons’ - Guardian
‘The Smell of Our Skins’ - Field
’Home Tweet Home’ - BBC
’Earthy Knowledge’ - Panorama
‘Unswimming’ - Watermarks
’I Me Wed’ - Lyra Magazine
’The Butterfly Collector’s Wife’ - Short Fiction Journal
’The Things We Lose in Tunnels’ - PANK magazine

Recognition

Word Factory Apprentice (mentored by Alex Preston, Paul McVeigh & Cathy Galvin); Pen Tales Hemingway Fellowship (Berlin); shortlisted for the Fish Prize, Brit Writer’s Award, Myriad/West Dean Award, First Chapter Competition; longlisted for Radio 4 Short Story Prize.