This Way to Departures is on the Edge Hill Short Story Prize shortlist alongside these brilliant collections! The Prize is the only UK-based award that recognises excellence in a single author short story collection.
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/englishhistorycreativewriting/2020/09/11/edge-hill-short-story-prize-2020-shortlist-announced/
#ShortStorySeptember is starting out with This Way to Departures and the prompt: 'Write the beginning of a story where the main character is leaving home.'
Read MoreA story about reading Hannah Arendt for the first time (and more). It's part of #FlashFriday in @LitroUSA and it's called LIGHTING THE MATCH.
Read MoreA reading of 'Butterfly McQueen on Broadway' from This Way to Departures. It's based on the true story of seeing Butterfly McQueen from Gone With the Wind uptown one day.
Read MoreI wrote about getting past the short stories I was encouraged to read when I started writing, the accounts of unhappy upper middle-class Americans that left the people and places I knew invisible.
Read MoreI wrote ‘You Were Always Waiting’ for 3:AM in Lockdown. It’s about anticipating crises, finding your way through grief, and walking around the silent streets of Berlin.
Read MoreI wrote about driving the backroads of Key Largo for Research Notes, Necessary Fiction's series that invites authors to describe their process for a recent book.
Read More‘Facsmiles’, a story from This Way to Departures is out in the wonderful Granta Magazine.
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