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 book was Cloudscapes over the Lune, a collaboration with Mary Sylvia Winter, Melissa Bailey, Sarah Dobbs and Kay Douglas to raise money for two children’s charities.

Current projects include a linked story collection, a children’s book and a novel.

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: 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: 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
• Bath Flash Fiction Award 2019: longlisted

(* Weze is pronounced way-zay)

Contact me at: clare.weze@gmail.com

or @ClareWeze

Site photography by Peter Easterby

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