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Clementine Ewokolo Burnley is a mother, public storyteller, and community worker. Her short pieces, essays and poetry have appeared most recently in the National Flash Fiction Anthology, Barren, Erbacce Journal, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Schlosspost Membrane, Losslit, Emma Press’ Second Place Rosette: Anthology of Britain, and die Neue Rundschau (Fischer Verlag).
In 2014 she co-edited a short story collection Winter Shorts with Sharon Dodua Otoo. Clementine has been in the final selection for the Amsterdam Open Book Prize, the Firstpages Prize, Bristol Short Story Prize, the Miles Morland Award, the Esalen Emerging Writers Award, the Bridport Flash Fiction Competition, and in the semifinal selection for Splitlip, the Erbacce Poetry Prize/ Bath Flash Competitions.
Burnley is an Obsidian Foundation Fellow, and a participant in the Curtis Brown Breakthrough Writers Programme. She received a Grant to make work from the Edwin Morgan Trust.