Amy Sackville writes novels, short fiction and other short prose.
I am a novelist and prose writer, and I teach on the MA in Creative and Life Writing. My most recent book, Painter to the King (Granta, 2018) focused on the life and work of the painter Diego Velázquez in the court of Philip IV of Spain.
I teach on the MA Creative and Life Writing.
I am also available to supervise on the PhD Creative Writing.
Broadly speaking, as a reader and a writer, I am fascinated by the interrelation between consciousness(es) and the world, as it is mediated by language; by the structures we are shaped by, and our sense of ourselves and others within them; by the spaces between people and how they are bridged.
My novels are, on the surface, concerned with quite disparate areas of research in terms of subject matter, but I am always thinking about form and formal experiment, the construction of narrative perspective and how it shapes meaning.
Some recurring interests: the history of the novel as a form; modernist fiction; the historical novel and the relationship between history and narrative; ekphrasis and art; intertextuality; writing and place; and the creative process as a field of enquiry and a way of knowing (and not-knowing).
2018:
Painter to the King
Novel, Granta
2021:
'The Stowaway's Tale'
In Refugee Tales Vol. IV, Comma Press
2021:
'In Saint-Paul-de-Vence'
Personal essay, in Rhythmanalysis: Research in Urban Sociology 17
2013:
Orkney
Novel, Granta
2010:
The Still Point
Novel, Portobello
2013:
Somerset Maugham Award
For Orkney
2010:
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
For The Still Point
Sackville, Amy. 2019. Painter to the King. London: Granta. ISBN 9781783783922
Sackville, Amy. 2014. Orkney. London: Granta. ISBN 9781847086655
Sackville, Amy. 2010. The Still Point. London: Granta. ISBN 9781846272301
Sackville, Amy. 2021. In Saint-Paul-de-Vence. In: Dawn Lyon, ed. Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 139-152. ISBN 9781839099731
Sackville, Amy. 2021. The Stowaway's Tale. In: David Herd and Anna Pincus, eds. Refugee Tales Volume IV. Manchester: Comma Press. ISBN 9781912697489
Sackville, Amy. 2021. What If Procrastination Is an Essential Part of Our Writing Process? Literary Hub,
Sackville, Amy. 2020. I am not reading. I am not writing. This is not normal. The Guardian, ISSN 0261-3077
Sackville, Amy. 2019. From polar explorers to frozen dystopias: the best books about ice. The Guardian, ISSN 0261-3077
Hall, Alan. 2021. Riding the Waves.
Sackville, Amy. 2018. Dog in a Hole.
Sackville, Amy. 2022. Manifest.
Sackville, Amy. 2022. The Cheapside Hoard. In: "The Goldsmiths Gallery", New Museum of London, United Kingdom.
