Penny Simpson

Penny Simpson is the 2008 winner of the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition and TMA Critic of the Year. Her short fiction will feature in the Dalkey Archive Press (US) collection, Best European Fiction, 2010. She is a Fellow of the Hawthenden International Writers Centre, 2009 and has received two writers' bursaries, from the Arts Council of Wales and Academi. The unanimously positive reviews of her first novel, The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum, include media such as the TLS, Jewish Book World ...See more

Penny Simpson is the 2008 winner of the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition and TMA Critic of the Year. Her short fiction will feature in the Dalkey Archive Press (US) collection, Best European Fiction, 2010. She is a Fellow of the Hawthenden International Writers Centre, 2009 and has received two writers' bursaries, from the Arts Council of Wales and Academi. The unanimously positive reviews of her first novel, The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum, include media such as the TLS, Jewish Book World (USA), New Welsh Review and Morning Star. Banquet was chosen by Welsh Literature Exchange for their 2008 Showcase. Penny was named by Mslexia as a Woman to Watch for 2009. See less