Jean McNeil, born 1968, is a Canadian fiction and

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. She is a Reader in

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and co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

. She grew up on Cape Breton Island in

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. She presently lives in

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, England.

Awards and recognition

* Winner, Grand Prize and Adventure Travel category at the Banff Mountain Film Festival Book Awards Book Competition for Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir, 2016. * Nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award for 'Ice Diaries: A Climate Change Memoir,' (extract from book in progress) 2013. * Awarded a Canada Council Grant for the Arts, 2013. * Finalist, Prism International prize for creative non-fiction, for 'The Skeleton Coast', Vancouver, Canada, 2013. * Nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize, USA for 'Ice Diaries', published 2012. * Winner, Prism International prize for creative non-fiction, for 'Ice Diaries: A Climate Change Memoir', Vancouver, Canada, 2012. * Shortlisted for the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers scheme, 2012. * Winner, Walkopedia travel writing award, 2011. * Shortlisted, Metcalfe-Rooke award for an unpublished novel manuscript, for Fire on the Mountain, 2011. * Awarded British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica, 2005 * Nominated,

Governor General's Award for English-language fiction The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English.Catherine Bush Catherine Bush is a Canadian novelist. Biography Born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto Schools, she attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature. Her debut novel, ''Minus Time'' ( ...

's "The Rules of Engagement" and Jean McNeil's "Private View,"'' in ''Narratives of crisis – crisis of narrative,'' Martin Kuester, ed., with Françoise LeJeune, Anca-Raluca Radu, Charlotte Sturgess. Wißner,

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2012 (Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures, 3) pp. 67 – 76

External links

Official website

Jean McNeil
at uea.ac.uk Living people 20th-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists Canadian expatriates in England Canadian women novelists Canadian travel writers Women travel writers Writers from Nova Scotia 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian expatriate writers Canadian women non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-writer-stub