![]() I remember getting the email and feeling completely shocked. Tell us about your experience of being shortlisted for the First Chapter competition? I worked on polishing the first chapter up for weeks I was on an evening writing course at the time and each week I would bring it for workshopping. ![]() Jackie was completely compelling to write, but couldn’t hold a whole novel. I knew I was getting quite serious about writing because one of my short stories suddenly became very long! I think someone sent me a link to the First Chapter competition and when I read the opening lines by Kate Mosse that you had to continue, I knew it was about my character Jackie, a shoplifting young mum who smelt like a tart’s handbag. What were the circumstances of you entering the First Chapter competition?īack in 2012, I was teaching at a primary school in South London and writing on the side. Her debut novel Nightingale Point, published by HarperCollins in 2019, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020.Īs the 2022 First Chapter competition is open for submissions, we caught up with Luan to discuss her writing journey and recent success. In 2012, she was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize x Grazia First Chapter competition, and she went on in 2018 to win the Costa short story prize for ‘Two Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns’. ![]() She is a primary school teacher, and formerly a business journalist. Luan Goldie was born in Glasgow but has lived in East London for most of her life. ![]()
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