Joya: AiR / Lucy Peters / GBR
photo Simon Beckmann
Joya: AiR / Lucy Peters / GBR
“Joya: AiR is such an impressive project: an ecologically self-sustainable homestead which Simon and Donna share with a varied and ever-changing band of artists. To be in residence was an opportunity for me to invest time in my creative work, and a rare chance to do so alongside other writers, in company with painters, photographers, sculptors and conceptual artists. Days in the studio were punctuated by cups of coffee, cats visiting my window, and walks through an arid, mountainous landscape, spectacular and strange. In the evenings, residents shared moreish vegetarian meals prepared by Donna. I was so grateful for Joya’s cloistered calm and the connections that I made there”.
Lucy Peters
Lucy’s short stories have been published in Mslexia, Structo, Ellipsis, The Citron Review and Mslexia’s Best Women’s Short Fiction 2023. Her poetry has been published in a Three of Cups anthology and the magazine Strix. Her novel-in-progress, The Child’s Bargain, has been shortlisted for the First Novel Prize 2023 and longlisted for the Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers Prize 2023.
She won second prize in the Vogue Talent Contest 2010, was a runner-up in Mslexia’s Flash Fiction Competition 2023, was shortlisted in the Bridport Prize Flash Fiction Competition 2019, and was longlisted in the Bath Flash Fiction Award 2019 and the Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition 2020.
Lucy has a degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, the University of London. For over a decade, she has worked as an editor, copywriter and journalist, specialising in art and culture.
Freelance writer and editor