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.'
A 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.
A 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.
I 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.
I 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.
I 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.
‘Facsmiles’, a story from This Way to Departures is out in the wonderful Granta Magazine.