Helen McClory
Helen McClory is a writer and editor based in Edinburgh, and she grew up between there and the Isle of Skye. Helen received a PhD in English Literature/Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow in 2010. Currently, she runs the Write Toscana retreat, based in Tuscany.
She has appeared on BBC Radio Scotland, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the May Festival in Aberdeen, as well as on panel discussions and live events such as Neu Reekie.
In 2021, Kei Miller selected Helen McClory as one of the ten unmissable emerging writers based in the UK for the International Literature Showcase, supported by the British Council. He commented on Helen’s work: “Her practice is endlessly playful, formally inventive, and always stretching itself into new territories. We are always in need writers to show us new forms, and McClory is establishing herself as a writer able to do just that.”
Helen’s books include the Saltire First Book Award winning On the Edges of Vision, Flesh of the Peach, Mayhem & Death and The Goldblum Variations, a book of microfictions on Jeff Goldblum.
Twitter: @HelenMcClory
Helen is represented at Jenny Brown Associates by Jenny. For all enquiries contact jenny@jennybrownassociates.com

Books by Helen

Bitterhall
Polygon, April 2021 From the prize-winning author of The Goldblum Variations: a tale of desire, madness and the reality-constructing powers of books In a darkening season in a northern city, Daniel, Órla and Tom’s lives intersect through a peculiar flatshare and a stolen nineteenth-century diary written by a dashing gentleman who may not be entirely dead. An interwar-themed Hallowe’en party leads to a series of entanglements: a longed-for sexual encounter, a betrayal, and a reality-destroying moment of possession. As the consequences unfurl, Bitterhall’s narrative reveals the ways in which our subjectivity tampers with the notion of an objective reality, and delves into how we represent – and understand – our muddled, haunted selves.