Amy Liptrot received the Wainwright Prize for The Outrun, which was also shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. As well as writing for local newspaper, Orkney Today, and editing the Edinburgh Student newspaper, she has worked as an artist's model, a trampolinist, and in a shellfish factory. Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the River out of which The Outrun emerged — it was awarded the 2016 Wainwright Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Prize. Amy Liptrot is a British journalist and author. She won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 and the Wainwright Prize 2016 for her memoir The Outrun (2016, Canongate Books, ISBN 9472). The latest tweets from @amymay. Amy Liptrot grew up on a sheep farm in Orkney and her first book, The Outrun, a memoir, will be published by Canongate in January 2016 August 2019 ‘I launch naked into the unknown’: writers on the.
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“It’s wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent … highly recommended.”—The Millions
After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy’s inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coasts, swims in icy Atlantic waters, tracks Orkney’s wildlife, and reconnects with her parents, revisiting and rediscovering the place that shaped her.
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A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
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