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Writing

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My writing

I’m a writer and UKCP-accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor.

I write non-fiction and fiction.

I’m the author of Living Well With Pain and Illness: write your own road map to healing in tough times (Orion Spring, 2024).

I’ve contributed essays to:

  • A Women’s Wales: The Dissonance and Diversity of Devolution through the Lives of Women In Wales (Parthian, April 2024).

  • An Open Door: New Travel Writing for a Precarious Century (Parthian, May 2022).

My work has been published in publications such as The Guardian and The New Statesman.

I explore cascading collective trauma, community care, collective liberation, otherness and embodiment.

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Education & Awards

I have studied memoir, journalism, creative non-fiction and fiction.

I’ve been lucky enough to study with teachers including Lidia Yuknavitch, Lilly Dancyger, Lily Dunn, Terese Mailhot, Alexander Chee, RO Kwon, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Tin House Winter Workshop and many more.

I have a degree in history, specialising in medieval women’s and gender studies, where I studied the work of early women writers and the querelle des femmes.

My awards include:

  • The London Library Emerging Writers Award, 2021/2022

  • A Writing Chance with Michael Sheen, 2021/2022

  • Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough Award, 2022 

  • Representing Wales Award, 2023/2024

    I have been shortlisted for:

  • The Nan Shepherd Prize, 2021

  • The Writers’ & Artists’ Working-Class Writers' Prize 2021.

I have also been awarded residencies at iconic institutions including:

  • Ty Newydd, National Writing Centre of Wales with the Francis Reckett Award.

  • Hawkwood Artist Residency programme at the Centre for Future Thinking.

Ty Newydd's iconic teal door seen through Grace's wheelchair wheels.

Representation

Literary Agent:
I’m represented by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency.

Contact Abi here.

Selected Publications

Cover of Grace's book: Living Well with Chronic Illness in script and rainbow letters. Write your own roadmap to healing in tough times. Grace Quantock. Your own is circled in teal and Grace's name is underlined.

Living Well With Chronic Illness: Write your own road map to healing in tough times

(Orion Spring, 2024).

Living well with pain might seem like a contradiction in terms, but for many of us, escaping the land of chronic illness is a reality we’re continually striving for.

However, it may well be proving more difficult than we had imagined. After all, if getting well were as simple as following our doctor’s advice, we’d all have done it long ago.

We’d be spending our days enjoying meaningful work we love, hiking to pretty waterfalls, reading novels and eating big dinners with friends or whatever we most need and love.

In Living Well with Chronic Illness, we’ll:

  • Map your current experience

  • Learn to reclaim your agency in a crisis

  • How to self-advocate effectively

  • Get clear on picking up your power and seeing your possibility.

  • We’ll learn how to tend to our energy ecosystem

  • Plot ways of building routes to your resources

This is where the shifts you’ve made meet your daily routine.

Get your copy here.

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If you are interested in commissioning a piece of writing, essay, or guest article.

Or if would like to re-publish a piece of my writing, please get in touch via the form below.

Thank you for your interest, I look forward to working together.

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