Carmen Marcus
Carmen Marcus is a published author, poet, playwright, creative facilitator, and mentor. As the daughter of a Yorkshire fisherman and Irish chef her writing brings together the practical and the magical. In 2025 Carmen was awarded an Arts Council England DYCP grant to pioneer lyrical storytelling for performance. Her play AND THE EARTH OPENED UP UNDER HER won Faber New Play Award 2023. In 2022 she won a scholarship with Teesside University that questions the relationship between people and place through mythological realism. Her debut novel HOW SAINTS DIE was published by Vintage in 2018, and won New Writing North’s Northern Promise Award and was long listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Daisy Johnson describes it as a ‘glorious, beautiful sea shanty of a book.’ Her poetry has been commissioned by BBC Radio, The Royal Festival Hall, Durham Book Festival and Apples and Snakes. She was named as a BBC Verb New Voice 2015. In August 2022 she was chosen as one of the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain’s recipients of the New Play Commission Scheme.
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