Isabella Sharp
Isabella studied English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, and began her writing career with short story and poetry competitions as a teenager. Her work examines women’s stories through the lens of fashion and beauty, influenced by her MsC in Fashion Marketing from Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2023, her story Her Strange Addiction was featured in the Squad anthology We Write the North, from which she developed her debut novel Girls Who Disappear, a sartorial thriller.
Isabella was specially commended in the Oxford Brookes International Poetry competition, and won a competition with Hull Truck Theatre that allowed her to develop a short play. This was performed and recorded by professional actors and later aired on Chapel FM radio. She was commended in the Cuckoo Young Writers’ Award in the Northern Writers Awards 2016, and long listed in the Tower Poetry competition. Isabella took second prize in the youth strand of the Robert Graves Poetry Competition, and at a young age, she had two stories published in the Red House Young Writers’ Yearbooks.
Recent work:
Iris van Herpen spring 2020 couture: sensory seas
Releases by Isabella Sharp
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