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 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
© Clare Weze 2017
Big aunty you are doing a good job in the life of students the whole word we love a job Weldon
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Congratulations on the award – well deserved!
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Everything is so exciting at the moment! Looking forward to the collection x
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Hi Clare. I’ve been exploring some of your short stories, and I really like your writing style. I’m a new writer myself and I’m just starting out. I also grew up in Yorkshire, in a little village named Birstwith, just outside Harrogate. I have a new literary blog I just started, and maybe you’d be interested in the concept and story prompt? Check it out when you have the time, and let me know what you think, https://thenumber26.net/
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