Jaki McCarrick is an award-winning writer. Her play, Leopoldville, won the 2010 Papatango Award for New Writing, and her most recent play, The Belfast Girls, developed at the National Theatre Studio, was shortlisted for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 2014 BBC Tony Doyle Award. Jaki’s short story, The Visit, won the 2010 Wasafiri Short Fiction Prize and appears in the 2012 Anthology of Best British Short Stories (Salt). Her critically acclaimed story collection, The Scattering, was published in 2013 by Seren Books and was shortlisted for the 2014 Edge Hill Prize. Jaki is currently editing her first novel, Black Soap. Represented by AM Heath: http://www.amheath.com/author?id=522
