Life

Alison Fell graduated from Edinburgh Art College and began writing for Scotland Magazine. She moved to London in 1970, where she co-founded the Woman's Street Theatre Group. An account of the company and Fell's life at this period appears in Michele Roberts's memoir Paper Houses.

She worked at the underground newspaper Ink, and contributed to Spare Rib

Spare Rib

Spare Rib was a second-wave feminist magazine in the United Kingdom that emerged out of the counter culture of the late 1960s as a consequence of meetings involving, amongst others, Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe.-Description:...

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In addition to her output of poetry and fiction, she held the School of English and American Studies Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...

 in 1998.

Awards

• 1984 Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
  Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
  The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize was awarded by the Poetry Society of London for a collection of poetry.-Winners:* 1966: Gavin Bantock for Christ: A Poem in 26 parts and Paul Roche for All Things Considered...
  
  
• 1991 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
  Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
  The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for 'an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.' It was established in memory of Peter Boardman and Joe...
  
  for Mer de Glace
• 2002-3 Royal Literary Fund Fellowship

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