Escalator 2011/12 winner: Shereen Tadros
Shereen Tadros is one of ten winners from our 2011/12 Escalator Fiction Competition, as chosen by our judges and mentors. Shereen will now enjoy a year’s worth of development from professional writers.
Shereen Tadros
I started making up stories before I could hold a pen and have never stopped. After an adolescence spent writing embarrassing poetry, I spent several years concentrating on my medical career. I now work as a doctor at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, where I spend far too much time being terrified by the resident clowns. Over the last year (in response to a dare), I have been busy rekindling my love of telling stories and so I feel very excited to be able to take part in the Escalator scheme this year. I am currently working on my first novel, which follows a young boy growing up in Alexandria in the 1950s, around the time of what has now become known as the first Egyptian Revolution.