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Rachel Fenton
Rachel Fenton, also known as Rae Joyce (born 1976), is a graphic novel artist and author from New Zealand. Born Rachel J. Fenton in 1976, in Yorkshire, she moved to New Zealand in 2007. She currently uses the pen name Rae Joyce. Joyce graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2007 with a BA in English Studies. With Sarah Laing and Indira Neville, Joyce is the co-editor of ''Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics''. In 2013 she won the 7th Annual Short Fiction Prize (in association with Plymouth University). She won the 2013 Flash Frontier Winter Award for excellence in writing. She was the runner up for the 2014 Dundee International Book Prize and her poem "Amazon" was longlisted for the Fish Publishing International Poetry Prize. She was also shortlisted for The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize and won the 2011–2012 AUT New Zealand Creative Writing Competition prize for short graphic fiction. In 2014 she was selected to be part of the Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ) is an area of Northern England which was History of Yorkshire, historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its county town, the city of York. The south-west of Yorkshire is densely populated, and includes the cities of Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Doncaster and Wakefield. The north and east of the county are more sparsely populated, however the north-east includes the southern part of the Teesside conurbation, and the port city of Kingston upon Hull is located in the south-east. York is located near the centre of the county. Yorkshire has a Yorkshire Coast, coastline to the North Sea to the east. The North York Moors occupy the north-east of the county, and the centre contains the Vale of Mowbray in the north and the Vale of York in the south. The west contains part of the Pennines, which form the Yorkshire Dales in the north-west. The county was historically borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
