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HUGHES, SIAN
Born in Swansea, she now lives in Cardiff. She works in PR and has recently completed Pain Sluts, a novel structured as a series of interconnected short stories written with the aid of an Arts Council of Wales Writers’ Bursary. Her screenwriting credits include Natural Cures for Common Ailments, selected for production as part of the Sgrin/HTV Wales ‘Screengems’ scheme, broadcast on HTV Wales; Marw Stripio, produced by Teledu Opws for S4C; and Triongl, a three–part thriller for S4C. She is also co–writing two film screenplays; The Saint of Missing Things and Ultramaroon. Ultramaroon recently secured development money from the European film development agency .Media Plus. Her story about teenage angst and desire in the shadow of a crematorium, Death and the Teenage Stripper, was runner up in the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition in 2005.Selected Publications:
Pain Sluts