Jane Fraser is an award-winning novelist and short story writer based in the Gower peninsula, south Wales. Her debut novel Advent, won the 2022 Society of Authors’ Paul Torday Memorial Prize.
Jane Fraser is the author of two novels, Weights and Measures (Watermark Press 2025), and Advent (Honno 2021), and two collections of short stories, The South Westerlies (Salt 2019) and Connective Tissue (Salt 2022).
Her short fiction has been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 as part of its Short Works series. ‘Soft Boiled Eggs’ read by Sharon Haf-Morgan, and ‘Paraphernalia’ read by Hannah Daniel, are available to listen to on BBC iPlayer.
“Jane Fraser is a superlative writer, quiet, subtle and Chekovian. She delves into life’s turmoils and tendernesses with skill and honesty and brings back, if not wisdom, then at least acceptance and at best understanding.”
Topher Mills, Poet
Her short stories have figured highly in major international competitions: she has been a finalist in the prestigious Manchester Fiction Prize, a runner up in the Rhys Davies Short Story Prize, longlisted in the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize, and in 2024, took 2nd place in the Bath Short Story Prize for her short fiction, ‘The Glitter Path’.
Jane also writes short memoir, having twice been a prize winner in the Fish Short Memoir Prize. On occasion she writes haibun and is winner of both the British Haiku Society and Genjuan International Prize for haibun.
Jane was the fiction guest-editor of the literary magazine, The Lonely Crowd (edition 13, 2022) and in 2023 was the judge for Wales’ Rhys Davies Short Story Award.
Jane has been a member of the Hay Festival Writers at Work programme, an immersive creative development award for writers. With a first degree (B.Ed) in education, she also has an MA (distinction) and PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University.
Jane is currently working on her third novel, a contemporary, inter-generational, eco-feminist story set in the Gower peninsula and is just bringing her third collection of short fiction to completion. Both works yet to be titled! 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, tries her hand at gardening and piano, and attempts to be a good grandmother to Megan (16), Florence (15), and Alice (11).
