Escalator Literature winner 2009: Gillian Daly

Biography:

Gillian Daly is a university lecturer from Norwich who teaches human rights law having qualified as a barrister and worked as a court reporter. She completed the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in September 2009 and is writing a novel, The Wash, which centres on the disappearance of a woman in Lincolnshire, and is narrated from the point of view of a deaf girl. Her short fiction has appeared in Mslexia and was short listed for the 2009 Asham Award.

'He looked up; there was dirt on his face and dirt on his neck and dirt down the front of the white shirt. The sleeves were rolled up, and the collar had lost its stiffness, and he looked like King again. It was easier to read his words in the caravan.
– I shud have tay her car. We need to et rid of her car. Et it way from yard.’