Lynda Clark

Lynda Clark (born 29 October 1981) is an author and creator of interactive fiction. Her short story, "Ghillie's Mum" won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada in 2018, and was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2019. Her debut novel, Beyond Kidding, was published by Fairlight Books in October 2019.

Biography Born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Clark completed a BA in English Literature, followed by an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University. She has worked as a bookseller at Waterstones and in the video game industry as a writer and producer. Currently she is based in Dundee, Scotland where she works as a Research and Development Fellow in Narrative and Play at InGAME: Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise, University of Dundee.

Clark has the rare neurological disorder, spasmodic dysphonia, an incurable condition which affects speech.

Awards and shortlistings 2017 The Cambridge Short Story Prize (shortlist) for Grandma's Feast Day 2018 Regional winner, Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada for Ghillie's Mum 2019 BBC National Short Story Award (shortlist) for Ghillie's Mum 2019 New Media Writing Prize (shortlist) for The Memory Archivist 2019 Winner, BL Labs Artistic Award for The Memory Archivist 2020 Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) Tom-Gallon Trust Award (shortlist) for Ghillie's Mum

Works

Novels Beyond Kidding, 2019,

Short stories Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories, 2021,

Interactive fiction The Memory Archivist, 2019

Non-fiction How I Ended the Wrestling Match Between My Brain and My Throat, 2013, The Guardian Why Final Fantasy 15’s beautiful food and ridiculous culinary preparation is the best thing in the game, 2017, Games Radar & Official XBox Magazine It's a Kind of Magic: The Tricks of Interactive Fiction, The Birmingham Journal of Literature and Language, VIII (2017), 55-65 Before Westworld was Mudfog – Charles Dickens’ surprisingly modern dystopia, 2018, The Conversation & Smithsonian Magazine