Chloe Daykin
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Chloe Daykin is an artist, designer, playwright and teacher and has an MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. She was awarded an AHRC studentship for her MA and graduated in Sept 2014 with distinction, winning the Newcastle University Taught Masters Prize.
Chloe's plays have been performed at the Traverse Theatre, Live Theatre, Northern Stage and the GIFT festival. Chloe’s work has won prizes and been selected for readings, including at the BBC R3 Free Thinking Festival, and for the past 15 years she has devised and delivered a range of book arts and creative bookbinding & pop up projects to all sorts of people in all kinds of places - including shopping centres, stately homes and prisons. Chloe lives down a bumpy track by a river in Northumberland with her husband and two boys. She used to be a fencer and is a lover of afternoon teas and ping pong. |
Fish Boy is Chloe's first novel for middle grade readers and will be published by Faber in 2016 and is already drawing comparisons to the work of David Almond, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Louis Sachar and R.J. Palacio.
Selected pre-publication praise for Fish Boy:
“I opened this and didn't stop reading until I'd read it all. It’s really distinctive, appealing, really well written, moving, funny. Strange, but very grounded in a real and believable world. Great voice, deftly-drawn characters. Congratulations. This is the real thing.”
David Almond
“Very accomplished writing - well paced with a very realized, complex voice - rooted and real, yet drifting towards sadness”
Jackie Kay
“Literary fiction in the tradition of David Almond; the writing and voice are in perfect balance”
Ann Coburn
“Chloe Daykin is one of the most original and surprising new writers I have encountered in the North East. ”
Lorne Campbell
RIGHTS SOLD:
World English: Faber
Italian - Giunti
Selected pre-publication praise for Fish Boy:
“I opened this and didn't stop reading until I'd read it all. It’s really distinctive, appealing, really well written, moving, funny. Strange, but very grounded in a real and believable world. Great voice, deftly-drawn characters. Congratulations. This is the real thing.”
David Almond
“Very accomplished writing - well paced with a very realized, complex voice - rooted and real, yet drifting towards sadness”
Jackie Kay
“Literary fiction in the tradition of David Almond; the writing and voice are in perfect balance”
Ann Coburn
“Chloe Daykin is one of the most original and surprising new writers I have encountered in the North East. ”
Lorne Campbell
RIGHTS SOLD:
World English: Faber
Italian - Giunti