The Writers of Wales Database

PREECE, SIÂN

Siân Preece was born in Wales, and lived in Canada and France for five years before moving to Aberdeen, where her writing career began. She produced the ‘Hell’s Angel’ feature for the Sunday Herald, and has been a columnist and reviewer for Scottish newspapers, BBC radio and television. In 2000, her first collection of stories, From the Life, was published by Polygon in 2000, and her stories and drama are broadcast regularly on Radio Four.

She was a finalist in the 1999 Macallan’s Short Story competition, and her work has been widely anthologised, including in Scottish Girls About Town (Pocket Books, 2003), Mama’s Baby, (Papa’s Maybe) (Parthian, 1999), Urban Welsh (Parthian, 2005), Something Wicked (Polygon, 1999), and the popular Little Black Dress anthology (Polygon, 2006). She has been an Arvon tutor, received Scottish Arts Council Bursaries in 1998 and 2002, and was awarded a Hawthornden fellowship in 2005. Siân won first prize in Academi's 2009 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Currently living in Cardiff and having recently completed an MA in Creative Writing, Siân is now working on a novel and a second short story collection.

Selected Publications: 
From the Life and Other Stories (Polygon, 2000)
On Such a Night (forthcoming)

Contributed to:
Mama’s Baby (Papa’s Maybe) (contributor) (Parthian, 1999)
Something Wicked (contributor) (Polygon, 1999)
Scottish Girls About Town (contributor) (Pocket Books, 2003)
Urban Welsh (contributor) (Parthian, 2005)
Little Black Dress (contributor) (Polygon, 2006)