Amy Stewart is a writer based in the Scottish Borders. She is the winner of the 2022 Mairtín Crawford Award for Short Story, and also the winner of the 2021 New Writing North & Word Factory Northern Apprentice Award. As part of this award, she spent six months completing her debut short story collection entitled Cruelties, which is full of vengeful, lustful and violent women undergoing transformations, both physical and otherwise.
Amy won a Highly Commended Award in the 2019 Bridport Prize, and was also shortlisted for the 2021 Mairtín Crawford Short Story Award. In 2021, she was longlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award. She also co-edited issue #2 of The York Journal. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize.
After studying English Language and Literature at Newcastle University, Amy graduated with a Distinction and the Programme Prize from an MA in Creative Writing at York St John. In October 2020, she started a PhD at Sheffield University, centred around female circus performers.
Amy is represented by Marilia Savvides at The Plot Agency. In addition to her debut collection of short stories, Amy is currently working on Hex House, a contemporary gothic novel based on a Scottish folk tale.
Read Amy’s published work
Short Stories:
New Writing Scotland 41 - ‘Nothing but a Set of Eyes For Stars’ - The Orange (August 2023)
Mairtin Crawford Award Website - Big Breath (June 2022)
Crow & Cross Keys - Nightjar (August 2021)
Test Signal (Bloomsbury/Dead Ink Books, July 2021) - Making Monsters
Route 57 - Ava (June 2021)
The York Journal - Hekla (May 2021)
Creative Writing Heals III - Dust Bowl (December 2020)
Undivided Magazine - Harry Black Marked Himself as Safe During Typhoon Kuat (August 2020)
Bridport Prize Anthology - Wolf Women (October 2019)
Beyond the Walls - The Land of Unbecoming (March 2019)
Creative Writing Heals II - Toy Town (March 2019)
Discorder Magazine - The Sun and the Moon (March 2017)
Flash Fiction:
Snow Crow: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Six - Digitus (December 2021)
Visual Verse - Luna (August 2021)
The Aurora Journal - Keep Me (January 2021)
Ellipsis Zine, Eight - Black Dot to Little Flame (October 2020)
Poetry:
The Grapevine Project Exhibition (November 2021) Under Covers, Underground
Reclaim: An Anthology of Women’s Lives (Bandit Fiction, October 2021) - How Are You?
Bandit Fiction - How Are You? (April 2021)
Waste Magazine - What Remains (March 2019)
Press and interviews:
Mairtin Crawford winner’s interview - Mairtin Crawford website (June 2022)
'Amy Stewart: From Copywriting to Writing the Circus’ - York St John Alumni Blog (November 2021)
'Dead Ink and Bloomsbury Showcase Northern Literary Talent in New Anthology’ - The Bookseller (August 2020)
Reviews & Non-Fiction:
Get ‘Em Young, Treat ‘Em Tough, Tell ‘Em Nothing by Robin McLean review (for Word Factory) 2022
We Move by Gurnaik Johal review (for Word Factory) 2022
On Relationships anthology review (for Word Factory) 2022
Manchester Uncanny review (for Word Factory) 2023
Academic Writing:
Queens of the Air: Remarkable Female Aerialists Who Rewrote the Rules (For Sheffield University’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities Women’s History Month Campaign). March 2023
