Davina Quinlivan

Shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Prize 2023, and Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity (September Publishing/Duckworth, 2026). She is currently Artistic Lead with Paper Nations, an Arts Council funded Creative Writing Incubator illuminating stories of colour in the South West. She is also a researcher within the English and Creative Writing Department at The University of Exeter and teaches a memoir course at The University of Bristol. Her writing has appeared in Caught by the River, Dazed Digital, Arty, Litro, The Lucy Writers, Another Gaze, Another Mag, Sight and Sound, Dark Mountain, The Clearing, The Conversation, The Willowherb Review and she spent ten years as a contributor to the Times Higher Education culture section. For several years, she ran the 'F: For Flânerie' series of talks on women, art and creativity at The Freud Museum. She is also the author of several academic books on cinema.