Dr Andrea Mason a Senior Lecturer for Contextual and Theoretical Studies at London College of Communication. She is a writer and artist.
Andrea is a graduate of the University of East Anglia (UEA) Creative Writing MA, and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, where she explored the impact of art practice on creative writing. She also holds an MSc in Environment & Sustainable Development, from DPU, UCL.Her fiction pamphlet 'Waste Extractions' was published at Broken Sleep Books, July 2022.
Andrea was Runner Up in the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, 2023, shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize (2020) and was the winner of The Aleph Writing Prize (2020). Her novel The Cremation Project was shortlisted for the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize (2018) and longlisted for the Dzanc Books Fiction Prize (2018). Individual chapters have appeared at: 3: AM Magazine, and UEA New Writing.
Andrea's current research focus is a body of work – writing and art – about waste, art and the climate crisis. This activity is supported by an Arts Council DYCP Round 8 grant.Fiction extracts have appeared to date in Failed States journal, Tar Press, Sublunary Editions, Seen From Here: Writing in the Lockdown, Mega City Fictions and Otoliths.
Art pieces have been included in 'Thirty-one years of Piece of Paper Press at Matts Gallery, London, 'The Wastemakers on Cornucopia Street' at Newhaven Art Projects and 'Now It Is Permitted: 24 Wayside Pulpits', at the Swedenborg Society.