‘a stunning, visceral talent’, Mslexia
Regi Claire © Dawn Marie Jones, Stoyanov and Jones
Hello and Grüezi
I am a Swiss-born novelist, short fiction writer and poet based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where I live with my writer husband Ron Butlin and our golden retriever. I write in English, not in my mother tongue.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS include two novels – The Waiting, The Beauty Room – and two story collections – Fighting It, Inside~Outside.
SHORTS & POEMS have appeared in the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA, including in Acumen, Ambit, Antigonish Review, Best British Short Stories, Best New British and Irish Poets, Best Scottish Poems, Channel, Crannóg, Edinburgh Review, For Books’ Sake, Forward Book of Poetry, Litro Magazine, Litro Online, Mslexia, New European, New Writing Scotland, orte Literaturzeitschrift, Poetry Birmingham, Rialto, Shearsman, Southword, Stand, Under the Radar, Unthology and numerous other publications.
Check out this brilliant animation of an extract from my poem ‘(Un)certainties’, also my recent reading at the anthology launch of Look Away Now (Linen Press).
AWARDS
- BOOKS
Inside~Outside: Scottish First Book of the Year (finalist)
Fighting It: Scottish Book of the Year (finalist)
Fighting It: Edge Hill Prize for Best Collection (longlisted)
The Beauty Room: MIND Book of the Year (longlisted)
The Waiting: UBS Cultural Foundation award - POEMS
‘(Un)certainties‘, my first poem: Mslexia/PBS Women’s Poetry Competition 2019 (1st prize)
‘(Un)certainties’: Forward Prizes for Poetry 2020, Best Single Poem (finalist)
‘Into the hot, dark heart of our world’: Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition 2021 finalist)
‘The last woman on earth’: Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021
‘All my words’: Best Scottish Poems 2021 - SHORT STORIES
‘Over, all over and beyond’, my first published short story: Edinburgh Review 10th Anniversary Short Story Competition (1st prize)
‘The Tasting’: Best British Short Stories 2013
‘When the bikers blow into town’: Eyelands 9th International Short Story Contest (finalist)
WORK
- Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh University
- Tutor of a private critical reading group
- Pre-pandemic, tutor of art-writing classes at Edinburgh City Art Centre and at National Galleries of Scotland.
- Former consultant for Waste Stories (environmental project based at Glasgow University and supported by the Leverhulme Trust; 2021-2024)
- former Royal Literary Fund Lector for Reading Round Scotland (2015-2017)
- former Royal Literary Fund Fellow (2012-2015).
For my joint performances with Ron, please go to McSwiss.
You can contact me here.
