Rachel Andrews is among 13 writers shortlisted for the 2017 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize, worth £25,000. https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/essay-prize

Rachel is a writer and journalist who guest-lectures on the long-form essay on the MA in Creative Writing module, Writing for the Media. She has been published in literary journals including The Dublin Review. Her essay, A New Wilderness at the Maze, which documented the destruction of the infamous Maze prison in Northern Ireland, won the inaugural Essay Prize (2013) at the Centre for Documentary Studies, Duke University, NC. She holds an MA (Distinction) in Creative Non-fiction from Bath Spa University.

The six prize-winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on June 28.