Literary Kitchen is a dynamic creative writing enterprise which nurtures and supports both beginner and practising writers, offering courses, events, manuscript and mentor services. Established in 2009 by writer, artist and researcher Andrea Mason, Literary Kitchen promotes process and performance, with the workshop process and readings forming integral aspects of the courses.

 

 

Andrea Mason is an artist and writer. She is a Runner Up in the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction 2023. You can read the story here. Her fiction pamphlet Waste Extractions was recently published by Broken Sleep Books. Read a review by Richard Capener here. Her debut novel The Cremation Project was shortlisted for the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize (2018) and longlisted for the Dzanc Prize for Fiction (2018). In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize and won The Aleph Writing Prize. Recent short story publications include 3:AM Magazine, Failed States, Tar Press, The Babel Tower Noticeboard, Sublunary Editions and Seen From Here: Writing in the Lockdown (eds. Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat).

Andrea is a graduate of the prestigious UEA Creative Writing MA (2004) and was awarded a Creative Writing PhD at Goldsmiths in 2020. Her thesis, which considers the impact of art practice on writing practice, informs both her practice and her teaching, making her courses active, dynamic and process-oriented.

Andrea has delivered creative writing workshops at all levels and across a range of settings including schools, universities, festivals and conferences. As well as running Literary Kitchen she is a Lecturer and Early Career Researcher at LCC, UAL. She has taught Short Courses at CSM, UAL and City University.

She is a Fellow of Advance HE. Advance HE fellowship demonstrates a commitment to professionalism and provides recognition of practice, impact and leadership in teaching and learning.