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Lorraine Wilson

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Writer, biologist, photographer, herder of cats, drinker of tea. she/her.

A conservation scientist and third culture Scot, I live by the sea writing stories influenced by folklore and the wilderness. My books have won two SCKA awards and been finalists for British Fantasy Awards, the Kavya Prize and the Saltire Book Award, and longlisted for the British Science Fiction Awards. I have also won a British Fantasy Award for short fiction.
I have been stalked by wolves and befriended pythons, run the Rewriting The Margins mentorship scheme for marginalised writers, and can be found at https://linktr.ee/raine_clouds.

IG: @raine_clouds_writes
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Why are we still infantilising women in fiction?

I know, I know, that’s a horribly click-bait article header, isn’t it? Bear with me?

First, a writing update. As I am still waiting to hear on the three projects out on sub, and had a moderately event-full January, I haven’t done much writing so far this year. As I wrote about last time, I’ve been playing with short fiction though, and finished two short stories in January – the first since I wrote

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“I want to be a fox,' he said. 'Fierce and wild.”
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