Elena Barham

Squad 11 member @thewritingsquad ✍️🏻

Third year English Literature BA @shefenglish 📚

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

Words cannot express how proud I am to have won the #BBCYWA !! Even writing that doesn't feel real! Many thanks to the BBC team, especially Ben and Sophie, who produced and narrated Little Acorns absolutely beautifully ❤️

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

@The_Globe 🕯

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

Super excited for this essay to be published, it's a topic I'm really passionate about ❤️

[English PEN @englishpen]

'When you’re the first in your family to pursue a creative career, you rely on your own cultural cues; you sprinkle like Salt Bae'

In #PENTransmissions, w/@thewritingsquad, @barham_elena on the ongoing lack of access to the arts for working-class writers.
https://t.co/dPXFu6P3oN

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Novara Media spoke to residents of Barnsley who called out rioters scapegoating immigrants: “Your problems are from the top-down people making us feel small because we’re working class. But I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well."

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

Forever a Hamlet girlie 🖤🖤🖤

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

I've been dreaming of being in the Squad directory since I was 12 🥰

[The Writing Squad @thewritingsquad]

Today's featured Squad 11 writer is @barham_elena ! Find out more about Elena's work here 🌳 https://t.co/V3Wu0i8dyY

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

@The_Globe 🍊 My favourite! @AlisonBarham

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

@The_Globe ☀️ @AlisonBarham My dream! 🥰

[Steve Dearden @SteveDearden]

This beautiful book arrives, a gift for every child born in Leeds during 2023 - a lovely @LEEDS_2023 initiative including work by Writing Squad writers @barham_elena @emilycharlyates @laurenCmaltas & @punkofcolour

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

Honoured to attend the launch of Northern Dreaming last week at Armley Library and to give the first reading of my story 'Rosa and George'.

Huge thanks to @britishlibrary and @leeds2023. It has been wonderful to be part of such a special project.

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

@TheTLS @RathbonesFolio @AlisonBarham ❤️📚

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

'Ordinary People' is now free to borrow on Libby ❤️❤️❤️

[Barnsley Libraries @BarnsleyLibs]

As part of the Holocaust Memorial Day events taking place in Barnsley and in partnership with Off The Shelf we ran a writing competition. Why not check out the eBook of all the entries including the winning entry by Elena Barham. Its live on our Libby app now!

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

@julesbuddle #BookTwitter 💙

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

So lovely to have been involved in such an important project with my hometown library - I've been a member since I was six weeks old and have borrowed countless books from there! 😊

[Barnsley Libraries @BarnsleyLibs]

Congratulations to Elena Barham who won our writing competition. Elena wrote a short story which impressed the judges with its captivating style and research into the topic.
Elena visited the Lightbox Library today to collect her prize. Well done Elena!

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

I highly recommend entering 😁 I had the most amazing experience last year 🙂❤️

[ed public relations @ed_pr]

We’re thrilled to share that Alexis Caught will be joining the #BBCYWA judges panel with Chair @KatieThistleton, @LauraDockrill, @aphrobooklover and @Konnie_Huq 📝

There’s still time to enter your short story before 20th March👉 https://t.co/x2r7aAEpIb #ShortStories

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

Honoured to have been selected in such an important competition. This means so much to me ❤️

[Barnsley Libraries @BarnsleyLibs]

Congratulations to Elena Barham who is the winner of our writing competition with her short story 'Swimming Lessons'.
Elena's story really impressed the judges and we look forward to presenting her with her prize!

#offtheshelffestivalofwords #HolocaustMemorialDay

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

So happy to be @ApplesAndSnakes ninth day of Christmas! I learned so much as part of Writing Room 2022 and had a blast filming this performance on local turf in #Barnsley! 🙂

[Apples and Snakes @ApplesAndSnakes]

On the ninth day of Christmas, Writing Room gave to me:
Elena Barham - Only the Oaks
With Love, Apples and Snakes 🍎 🐍 🎄

🔗 https://t.co/oHAfIdSaZT

#WritingRoom #FestiveFeelings #SpokenWord #NoWordUnspoken

[NYer Page-Turner @pageturner]

I held him together
as long as I could, she says.

He stopped working,
stopped coming upstairs.

He was like tissue paper
coming apart in water.

Like smoke in my hands.
It had nothing to do

with you, baby. You left
when you had to.

Edgar Kunz https://t.co/07R1qee0AD

[BBC Arts @bbcarts]

One of the biggest prizes in the literary world will be announced on Monday night. Join @BBCFrontRow on @BBCRadio4 from 9:15pm for coverage of the @TheBookerPrizes ceremony.

Read @RebeccaJonesBBC's round-up of the shortlisted novels for @BBCNewsEnts here: https://t.co/TPFDjoUkGc

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

@jo_cllroldtown Thank you! 😊

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

Words cannot express how proud I am to have won the #BBCYWA !! Even writing that doesn't feel real! Many thanks to the BBC team, especially Ben and Sophie, who produced and narrated Little Acorns absolutely beautifully ❤️

[Elena Barham @barham_elena]

Thank you so much for the heartfelt write-up of my euphoric ramblings! I had such a wonderful time doing this interview! The warm response Little Acorns has received and the meanings people derive from it have been unbelievably encouraging as a young writer 🙂

[United By Books @unitedbybks]

We had the honour of chatting with Elena Barham, winner of the 2022 BBC Young Writers' Award, on her journey in crafting "Little Acorns". 🌰 @ed_pr

Speaking wisely, Elena believes "[p]erhaps teenagers tackle [social] issues even more directly". #BBCYWA

https://t.co/q8LvB75EVR