Jane Fraser is an award-winning fiction writer, based in the Gower peninsula, south Wales. Her debut novel Advent, published by Honno (2021), won the 2022 Society of Authors’ Paul Torday Memorial Prize. Her first collection of short fiction, The South Westerlies, was published by Salt (2019) and her second collection from Salt, Connective Tissue, was published in October 2022.
Jane Fraser has been widely published in anthologies and reviews including New Welsh Review, The Lonely Crowd, Fish Publishing, TSS and The London Magazine.
Her short fiction has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 (2022 and 2024) and broadcast as part of its Short Works series.
Her short stories have figured highly in major international competitions: in 2017 she was a finalist in the Manchester Fiction Prize, in 2018 was a prize winner in the Fish Memoir Prize, and in 2024 was placed 2nd in the Bath Short Story Award. She has also listed in the Cambridge Short Story Prize, the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition and Retreat West Short Story Competition.
She is winner of both the British Haiku Society and Genjuan International Prize for haibun.
In 2018/19 she was a Hay Festival Writer at Work, a prestigious creative development award for emerging writers. With a first degree (B.Ed) in education, she also has an MA (distinction 2013) and PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University (2017).
In 2022, she was the fiction guest-editor of the literary magazine, The Lonely Crowd and in 2023 was the judge for Wales’ prestigious Rhys Davies Short Story Award.
She is proud to be represented by Gaia Banks, Literary Agent at Sheil Land Associates Ltd.
When not writing, Jane Fraser is Co-Director of NB:Design a brand and digital agency along with her husband Philip Griffiths, a designer and photographer. When not working or writing, she walks her home patch of Gower and tries to be a good grandmother to Megan (15), Florence (13) and Alice (10).
You can order a copy of Advent from:
Cover to Cover | Honno | Griffin Books | Amazon | Waterstones
You can order a copy of The South Westerlies from:
Salt | Cover to Cover | Griffin Books | Amazon | Waterstones
I found The South Westerlies absolutely compelling. Dark, uncompromising and shiversome, they brilliantly describe the landscape and atmosphere of Gower and paint snatches of sad, haunted lives.