Jo Lloyd
Jo Lloyd | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Short story writer |
| Notable works | The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies |
| Notable awards | BBC National Short Story Award (2019) |
Jo Lloyd is a Welsh writer who won the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award. She won an O. Henry Award in 2018. Her debut short story collection, The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, was shortlisted for the 2021 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.
Biography
[edit]Lloyd grew up in south Wales and now lives there.[1][2]
Writing career
[edit]Lloyd's stories have been published in Ploughshares,[3] Southern Review,[4] and Zoetrope: All-Story,[5] and broadcast on BBC Radio.[6] She won the Asham Award, the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize, and a McGinnis-Ritchie Award, and was selected for Best British Short Stories in 2012.[2]
In 2018, Lloyd's story "The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies", originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story, won an O. Henry Award.[2][7] The story is set in the 1700s and was inspired by the life of Sir Humphrey Mackworth.[8]
In 2019, Lloyd won the BBC National Short Story Award for her short story "The Invisible".[1][2] The story is set in rural Wales and is based on the life of Martha'r Mynydd, an eighteenth-century woman from Carnarvonshire who said that she was visited by an invisible family.[2]
Lloyd's debut short story collection, The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, was published in 2021.[9][10] In the US, the collection was published under the title Something Wonderful.[8][11] The collection was shortlisted for the 2021 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.[12][13]
Works
[edit]Short story collections
[edit]- The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, Swift Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1800750104
- Something Wonderful, Tin House Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1951142728
As contributor
[edit]- The O Henry Prize Stories 2018, ed. Laura Furman, Knopf Doubleday, 2018, ISBN 978-0525436584
- The BBC National Short Story Award 2019, Comma Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1912697229
- Duets, Scratch Books, 2024, ISBN 978-1739830168
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Welsh writer Jo Lloyd wins BBC Short Story prize". BBC News. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ^ a b c d e "BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award - National Short Story Award Winner". BBC. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ^ Lloyd, Jo (Fall 2013). "The Ground the Deck". Ploughshares (121).
- ^ Lloyd, Jo (Autumn 2014). "Your Magic Summer". Southern Review. 50 (4): 528–545.
- ^ Lloyd, Jo (Summer 2014). "My Bonny". Zoetrope: All Story. 18 (2).
- ^ Lloyd, Jo (6 Jan 2023). "After the Romans". BBC. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ "Announcing the 2018 O. Henry Stories". Lit Hub. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ a b Oldweiler, Cory (28 September 2021). ""Just Over There, Out of Sight": Jo Lloyd's "Something Wonderful"". LA Review of Books. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ Cook, Jude (2021-02-10). "The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd review – subtly allusive stories". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ^ Kelly, Alison (14 May 2021). "The witnessing life". TLS. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ Difrancesco, Alex (27 August 2021). "Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer". New York Times. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ "Previous shortlists and winners". The Edge Hill Short Story Prize. 2022-06-20. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ^ "'Major talent' Jo Lloyd shortlisted for Edge Hill Short Story Prize". Swift Press. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
