Beda Higgins is a multi-published and award winning author and poet.

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She has two short story collections published: ‘Chameleon’ was a Read Regional Recommendation and ‘Little Crackers’, which includes a first prize winning Mslexia short story, was longlisted for the Frank O’ Connor Award. Both were longlisted for the Edgehill Prize. Her first collection of poetry OURSELVES was 2020 joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Award, and was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2021

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Beda is a general and psychiatric nurse, and is a recipient of two Queen’s Nursing Institute Awards.  Anglo-Irish she now lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne with her family.