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Beda Higgins is a poet and writer living in
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Biography

Beda Higgins is an Anglo-Irish writer from
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who lives in
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, where she works as a Psychiatric and General Nurse. She completed a masters in creative writing from
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in 2000. In her career as a nurse she has been awarded the
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Awards for her work using creative writing with patients. She is also a poet and short story writer who has won the ''Northern Writers' Awards'' on multiple occasions as well as the ''Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize''. Her work is published in anthologies as well as two collections of short stories. In 2021 her work was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize.


Publications

As Sole Author * * * Collection of short stories. Anthologies and collections: Prose and poetry * 2021 THE CULTURAL AFTERLIFE OF RUINS National Museums NI * 2020 THESE ARE THE HANDS Fair Acre Press * 2018 THE HIPPOCRATES PRIZE * 2018 POEMS FOR THE NHS The Onslaught press * 2018 POEMS FOR GRENFELL The Onslaught press * 2016 COLD IRON Ghost stories Iron Press * 2013 ROOT Iron Press  * 2010 BOOK OF TEN. Zebra publishing * 2009 THE GRIST ANTHOLOGY OF NEW WRITING. * 2006 ON NEW STREET. Biscuit Publishing * 2005 THE POETRY CURE. Bloodaxe Books * 2005 FOR THE KIDS. Biscuit Publishing * 2002 ADRIFT FROM BELIZE TO HAVANA. Biscuit Publishing * 2001 BISCUIT POETRY ANTHOLOGY. Articles in Journals and Magazines * 2022 Arts Ireland: A nurse bears witness http://www.artsandhealth.ie/perspectives/ourselves-a-nurse-poet-bears-witness/ * 2021 Intima Journal of narrative medicine A LIFE * 2017
Mslexia ''Mslexia'' is a British magazine for women writers, founded and edited by Debbie Taylor. ''Mslexia'' contains articles and resources on writers, writing, and publishing. Writers who have contributed articles include Patricia Duncker, Sara Maitla ...
 Magazine * 2009
Mslexia ''Mslexia'' is a British magazine for women writers, founded and edited by Debbie Taylor. ''Mslexia'' contains articles and resources on writers, writing, and publishing. Writers who have contributed articles include Patricia Duncker, Sara Maitla ...
Magazine first prize winner story * 2003
Mslexia ''Mslexia'' is a British magazine for women writers, founded and edited by Debbie Taylor. ''Mslexia'' contains articles and resources on writers, writing, and publishing. Writers who have contributed articles include Patricia Duncker, Sara Maitla ...
Magazine * 2001
Mslexia ''Mslexia'' is a British magazine for women writers, founded and edited by Debbie Taylor. ''Mslexia'' contains articles and resources on writers, writing, and publishing. Writers who have contributed articles include Patricia Duncker, Sara Maitla ...
Magazine Multiple articles and opinion pieces published in Independent Nurse.


Awards

2019 VS Pritchett short story prize longlist 2018 Hippocrates Poetry Award commendation 2016 Northern Writer New Fiction Bursary 2015 Edgehill Prize longlist 2015 Frank O’Connor Prize longlist 2012 Luke Bitmead Novel Award shortlist 2012 Edgehill Prize longlist 2011 Read Regional Recommendation 2010 Northern Writer Award 2010 Cinnamon Press novel Award shortlist 2009 winner Mslexia short story competition 2007 Residential Prize winner Biscuit Publishing 2004 Northern Promise Award 2004 Novel shortlisted Lit Idol national competition


Projects

2022 Speaker at Sunderland Symposium: Humanities in Medicine 2016–2020 BBC 2 500 words children’s competition Judge 2013 Writing mentor for New Writing North Cuckoo project 2010 Art’s council representative Toronto short story conference 2010 National Short Story Day commissioned story ‘Cinderella’ broadcast 2008 Queens Nursing Institute Award Creative Writing as a therapeutic tool 2007 Writing mentor regeneration project/New Writing North 2007 2006 Writing mentor Creative centre/New Writing North 2006 Regular contributor to Independent Nurse (Journal for Professional Nurses)


Sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Higgins, Beda Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Newcastle upon Tyne Anglo-Irish women poets English nurses 21st-century Irish women writers