Short Stories
Her short stories have received a number of prizes including the Penguin/Observer Newspaper Short Story Award, 1993. She was awarded an Arts Council Writer's grant in 2000.
Harris has been published in a wide variety of anthologies and literary magazines including New Writing 3, edited by Andrew Motion and Candice Rodd, and in several volumes of New Writing Scotland.
Ascension 1979 was commissioned for BBC Radio 3's The Verb. Jane read the story when it was broadcast live from Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House on 6 May 2011.
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