Jonathan Page

Blue Woman

Genuinely beautiful. A tender, deeply felt novel, full of writing to glory in.

Barney Norris, author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

Jonathan's first novel, Blue Woman, the fictional biography of Rose Hartwood, a 20th Century Welsh artist, is published by Weatherglass Books. The novel traces the long, rising and falling line of her personal and artistic life, from a bombed out house in wartime London to near fame in the sixties, and a late-life affair with a young artist almost twenty years her junior. There is also a third-act, when others, her son, her lover, and the trust founded in her name, gradually take on the burden of her life's work - including the restoration of her most famous painting, Blue Woman.

Jonathan's article on the Art of Blue Woman, about the Welsh women artists who inspired the creation of Rose, was published in the New Welsh Review. Life Drawing: Jonathan Page on Writing Blue Woman, was published by Wales Arts Review. Blue Woman was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), and selected for the Wales Literature Exchange bookshelf, an organisation which promotes the translation of Welsh literature. An early version of the novel's first chapter was published by Embark, a US-based literary journal for novelists.

About the Author

Jonathan Page lives and works in the Black Mountains in Wales. Several of his short stories have been highly placed in competition and included in anthologies in recent years. His story Fear and Trembling was shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Prize 2022. His first novel, Blue Woman, is published by Weatherglass Books. He is working on a second literary novel, set in the Welsh Marches during the English Civil War.

Contact

Jonathan is represented by Cara Lee Simpson for the Susanna Lea Agency:

clsimpson@susannalea.com

You can also contact him directly at jonpage90@hotmail.com

Short Stories & Anthologies

A number of Jonathan's short stories have been placed in competition and published in anthologies, in recent years. In addition to his next novel, he is currently working on a short collection of speculative short stories.

Fear and Trembling: Shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Award 2022. Included in the competition anthology, Cree.
The Sacrifice: Winner of the Hay Writers' Award 2018.
Running Up That Hill: Shortlisted for the Hammond House International Writing Competition 2019. Included in the competition anthology, Leaving.
Four stories were shortlisted for the Earlyworks Press Short Story Competition 2017. Two stories, Superyacht and Blue Woman, were included in the anthology, The Sorcery of Smog.
Horseplay: Winner of the Earlyworks Press Flash Fiction competition 2017. Both Horseplay and Superyacht, a Flash version of a longer story, were included in the anthology Origami Poems and Towering Stories.
The Hill Farm: Second Place in the TheShortStory.net Short Story Competition 2016. Included in the competition anthology, Best of the Short Story: Volume 2.
Three stories longlisted in the inaugural Cambridge Short Story Prize 2017.
Commendation in the Cinnamon Press short story competition 2016.
The Apple is included in the 2016 Earlyworks Press anthology,Apples, Shadows and Light.
The Teacher: Winner of the Earlyworks Press Short Story Competition 2015. Two stories, The Teacher and The Mountain, are included in the competition anothology, Journeys Beyond.