William Bedford
William Bedford received an Arts Council Major Bursary for Poetry in 1978, Society of Authors Award in 1993, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Award in 1993, Yorkshire Arts Award in 2000 for the publication of The Redlit Boys and a Royal Literary Fund Award in 2007. His first novel, Happiland, was runner-up for the 1990 Guardian Fiction Prize. Collecting Bottle Tops: Selected Poetry 1960-2008 and None of the Cadillacs Was Pink: selected short stories and non-fiction were both published in 2009.He...See more
William Bedford received an Arts Council Major Bursary for Poetry in 1978, Society of Authors Award in 1993, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Award in 1993, Yorkshire Arts Award in 2000 for the publication of The Redlit Boys and a Royal Literary Fund Award in 2007. His first novel, Happiland, was runner-up for the 1990 Guardian Fiction Prize. Collecting Bottle Tops: Selected Poetry 1960-2008 and None of the Cadillacs Was Pink: selected short stories and non-fiction were both published in 2009.He was on the Editorial Board of Poetry Salzburg Review from 2007 to 2016, and was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University from 2008 to 2011. He was awarded first prize in the London Magazine International Poetry Competition in 2014. See less
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