Born in London and raised mostly in Yorkshire, I have British and Nigerian* heritage and write for both adults and children. I’ve always written around my day job, starting out as a hairdresser in London’s West End, then moving on to a science degree, postgraduate studies and work in the fields of biomedical and environmental research. I now divide my time between editing scientific publications and writing fiction.

I’m represented by The Good Literary Agency

My first children’s book, The Lightning Catcher, is out May 2021 from Bloomsbury Children’s

Awards

• Northern Writers’ Award 2016: fiction award winner
• Commonword Children’s Diversity Writing Prize 2012: RUNNER UP
• Unbound short story competition, 2016: RUNNER UP
• Galley Beggar Press short story prize, 2016: SPECIAL MENTION
• Fish Publishing short story contest, 2016/17: longlisted
• Bath Flash Fiction Award 2017 and 2019: longlisted
• Fish Publishing short memoir prize, 2017/18: longlisted
• Wells Festival of Literature short story competition, 2017: 3rd PRIZE
• Words & Women prose competition, 2017: shortlisted
• Bare Fiction Prize 2017: 2nd PRIZE
• Fish Publishing flash fiction prize, 2018 and 2020: longlisted
• TSS Flash Fiction 400, 2018: shortlisted
• Reflex Flash Fiction 2018 and 2019: longlisted
• Wells Festival of Literature short story competition, 2018: shortlisted
• The Bridport Prize (flash fiction) 2018: shortlisted
• Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2018: FINALIST
• Fish Publishing short story prize, 2018/19: shortlisted
• Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction 2018: FINALIST

(* Weze is pronounced way-zay)

Contact me at: clare.weze@gmail.com

or tweet @ClareWeze

Site photography by Peter Easterby

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