Eve Thomson

There's a dark hair between the nipped ends of the tweezers and I'm about to pull. I have the whole little drama - a slice of a grey eye, the curve of an eyebrow, this instrument of torture - in the pocket mirror propped up on a pile of books stacked on the table in front of the window. I'm just about ready to take the pain. And suddenly this blot of colour explodes into the edge of the grey square that's the backdrop to all this. My eyes make a quick change of focus. I'm so not expecting it, and drop the tweezers into my coffee.

From The Proper Kind of Stones

Biography 

Born in Perth, Scotland, Eve Thomson took both undergraduate and graduate degrees in drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art.  She lived in the United States for fifteen years, taught drawing, painting and art history at university and college level, exhibited nationally and internationally, and was the recipient of several visual arts related awards and fellowships.  In 2003 she returned to live and work in Edinburgh.  A ten-year involvement with text in painting gradually shifted from a primary focus on the interaction of text and paint to the very specific content of the text itself.  In 2006, she took a creative writing class at Edinburgh University.   

Literary awards include:  short-listed for the William Soutar Prize, 2008; short-listed prize-winner of the Harpers Bazaar/Orange Short Story Award, 2007;  long-listed for the Bridport Prize, 2007

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"I am delighted to receive this award.  It is an award that allows me to buy much valued time to write, and also gives access to the very focused opportunities provided by its related professional contacts."