ABOUT

Axel Forrester holds a MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and an MFA in Fine Arts from California State University Long Beach. Her novel Vivian Maier Framed was shortlisted for The Plaza Literary Chapters Prize (2024), and the first chapter was performed online at the Wildsound Novel Writing Festival (2024). It won 2nd place in the Opening Lines competition from Retreat West (2024) and has been  published by The Write Launch Literary Magazine (2024). The novel Three Steps of the Sun was given the Shortlist Award for the First Novel Prize (2024) by the Literary Studio, London. This novel also had an excerpt published in Embark Literary Magazine (2023) It was also longlisted for the Bath Novel Award (2023). Her novel Swan Diaries, was longlisted in the Mslexia Novel Competition (2024), and was a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest (2023) also longlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize (2020). A short story by Axel Forrester, Write What You Know, was an Honourable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary Short Story category of the 92nd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition (2023). Her short story Life Lessons was published in The Saturday Evening Post’s Best American Fiction of 2015 with an Honourable Mention. Forrester’s short film, The Green Box, was awarded by the American Film Institute and appears in their collection as well as the Long Beach Museum of Art Collection. She is both an American and British citizen, living near Hastings, in the UK.

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