Escalator 2011/12 winner: Rebecca Atkinson
Rebecca Atkinson is one of ten winners from our 2011/12 Escalator Fiction Competition, as chosen by our judges and mentors. Rebecca will now enjoy a year’s worth of development from professional writers.
Rebecca Atkinson
I am a freelance writer and journalist. I have previously written articles and short stories for publications including The Guardian, Weekend, Vogue and Marie Claire. I have written scripts for BBC television, two half hour screenplays produced by Mutt and Jeff productions for the Community Channel and a stage play for Deafinately Theatre, at Soho Theatre.
I am currently working on my novel
Collecting Faces - a story of love and sight loss in London, based on my former
Guardian Weekend column, 'Losing Sight, Still Looking'.
Read an extract from Rebecca Atkinson's Escalator 2011/12 submission.