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Influenced by David Bowie, Virginia Woolf and Sally Wainwright, Elinora Westfall is a writer of stage, screen, fiction, poetry and radio. Her novel, Everland, was selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow Editorial Programme in 2021, and her short films have been selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Camden Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, while her theatre and audio shows have been selected by The British Library and performed in London's West End and on Broadway, where she won the award for Best Monologue. You can find Elinora on Twitter at @elinorawriter.
Her poetry collection and short story collection will be published in November 2023 and May 2024 respectively.
Effy Redmanâs writing investigates the intersection of disability and identity. Drawing from her journey with Moebius Syndrome (a rare condition of facial paralysis) and bipolar disorder, she writes into the experience of otherness, finding resilience beyond the shadows. Redman has published work in The New York Times, Vice, Ravishly, HowlRound Theatre Commons, and Chronogram, among other places. She holds an MFA in Memoir from CUNY: Hunter College, where she received an Honorable Mention for the Helen Gray Cone Fellowship, and a BA in Literature/Drama from Bennington College, where she was an Ellen Knowles Harcourt Scholar and a Bennington Scholar.
Her memoir, Saving Face, will be published in March 2024.
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