Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Tessa McWatt is the author of seven novels and two books for young people. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, and the OCM Bocas Prize. She is one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018, for her memoir: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, which won the Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction 2020 and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and the Governor General's Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also a librettist, and works on interdisciplinary projects and community-based life writing through CityLife: Stories Against Loneliness.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A partnership for community-led health behaviour change research in areas of high socio-economic disadvantage
Hardeman, W., Abranches, M., Gordon, J., Hanson, S., McNeil, J., Minihane, A., Sweeting, A., Abranches, M., McNeil, J., McWatt, T., Robinson-Pant, A. & Varley, A.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/06/23 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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Future and Form of Literature
Sutton, H., Cowan, A., Mann, J., McNeil, J., McWatt, T., Scott-Brown, S., Smith, J., Waters, S. & Wood, N.
1/04/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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A Different Kind of Belonging
McWatt, T., 1 Feb 2023, Sportsnet.ca.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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Its Bark
McWatt, T., 1 Oct 2021, Writers' Mosaic.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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Murmuring In A Dream of Freedom
McWatt, T., 1 Dec 2021, Brick: A Literary Journal.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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The Snow Line (a novel)
Mcwatt, T., 11 Jul 2021, Toronto and London: Random House Canada and Scribe UK. 241 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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As the Covid-19 Lockdown Ends, What World Awaits People?
McWatt, T., 7 Aug 2020, The Globe and Mail.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Prizes
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Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Non-Fiction Winner
McWatt, Tessa (Recipient), 4 May 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Eccles British Library Award
McWatt, Tessa (Recipient), 1 Jan 2018
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
McWatt, Tessa (Recipient), 1 Jun 2021
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
- 1 Festival/Exhibition/Performance
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CW50/EACWP Creative Writing Conference
Andrea Holland (Organiser) & Tessa Mcwatt (Organiser)
21 May 2021 → 22 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Festival/Exhibition/Performance