Caroline Ward Vine
Caroline Ward Vine is a writer of prize-winning fiction.
Caroline’s recently completed first novel, Stolen Threads, was a finalist in the Bath Novel Award 2021.
In January 2019, Caroline’s short story Breathing Water won the COSTA Book Awards Short Story Prize. In the same year, she won first prize in the Bath Short Story Award with her story A Gap Shaped Like the Missing.
Her first novella was also shortlisted for the 2019 Mslexia Novella Competition.
Caroline’s stories have been shortlisted in a range of other prestigious competitions, including the Bridport Prize (2016), Bath Short Story Award (2018) and Mslexia Short Story Competition (2018), in which her work reached the final ten. She also made the top thirty of the 2018 Royal Society of Literature VS Pritchett Short Story Prize.
Career
Caroline turned to writing after a first career in magazine publishing, during which she ran publications such as TVTimes, Woman, Woman’s Own and What’s on TV, and a second in education. In recent years she has specialised in Higher Education, with a focus on media and the creative and performing arts.
She gained her MA Creative Writing (Distinction) in 2018.
Inspiration
Caroline’s heart lies with the forgotten, the overlooked and the lost. She has a passion for history and, as a keen advocate for women’s rights, she often finds inspiration in lesser known aspects of their domestic past and struggles. Her love of singing and music threads through her work, as does her perennial wanderlust.
After years as a city dweller, she now lives in rural Kent, though her former hometowns of Brighton and Cambridge often feature as a backdrop to her writing.
COSTA Short Story Prize Winner
Caroline’s story Breathing Water took first prize at the Costa Book Award ceremony in January 2019 after winning the public vote.
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Bath Short Story Award Winner
Caroline’s story A Gap Shaped Like the Missing won the 2019 Bath Short Story Award.
“A wonderfully vivid and arresting story”
Samuel Hodder, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency
Judge, 2019 Award
