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‘Half-mown Lawn’ to be performed as part of Best British Short Stories: An All New Love. Lust. Loss.

By Dan Powell on September 21, 2022

Hive Young Writers Festival

By Dan Powell on April 8, 2018

First Story: how you can help young writers across the UK

By Dan Powell on September 26, 2016

Reading @ PowWow Festival of Writing 24th April 2016

By Dan Powell on April 21, 2016

Essays galore over on Thresholds

By Dan Powell on April 18, 2016

Being Dad launch @ Norwich Writers Centre

By Dan Powell on April 6, 2016

Goodbye 2015, Hello 2016

By Dan Powell on January 1, 2016

Why you should apply for an RSL Brookleaze Grant

By Dan Powell on November 25, 2015

Characters and Stories @ Wolds Words 2015

By Dan Powell on October 17, 2015

Being Dad Kickstarter final few days

By Dan Powell on October 7, 2015

Being Dad Kickstarter is go!

By Dan Powell on September 22, 2015

First Story Young Writers’ Festival 2015

By Dan Powell on September 19, 2015

First Story Summer Residential 2015

By Dan Powell on August 3, 2015

2nd Place in 2015 Bath Short Story Award

By Dan Powell on July 15, 2015

What have I been up to lately? Well…

By Dan Powell on July 8, 2015

Unthology 7 @ Project U

By Dan Powell on June 24, 2015

My 2014 in review

By Dan Powell on December 31, 2014

Talking short stories at LSSF 2014

By Dan Powell on September 21, 2014

Bat Night

By Dan Powell on August 23, 2014

News, News and more News

By Dan Powell on June 17, 2014

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Looking Out of Broken Windows

My debut collection of short fiction, published by Salt. Click the image to order.

Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2020

Includes my short story 'Exterior. Train Station Platform. Night.' Click the image to purchase a print copy of the anthology.

Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Anthology 2020

Includes my short story 'Dissolution.' Click the image to purchase a print copy of the anthology.

The London Magazine August/September 2017

Includes my short story 'The Ideal Husband Exhibition.' Click the image to read online or purchase a print copy.

The End

Includes my short story 'All The TVs In Town.' Click the image to order.

Being Dad

Winner of the 2016 Saboteur Award for Best Anthology. Includes my short story 'A Father's Arms.' Click the image to order.

Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2015

Includes my short story 'Dancing to the Shipping Forecast.' Click the image to order.

The Lonely Crowd 2

Includes my short story 'The Old Fashioned Hat.' Click the image to order.

Unthology 7

Includes my short story 'Free Hardcore.' Click the image to order.

New Short Stories 8

Includes my short story 'Rip Rap.' Click the image to order.

Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013

Includes my story 'Storm in a Teacup'. Click the image to order.

Carve Spring 2013 Premium Edition

Includes my Esoteric Award winning story 'Storm in a Teacup.' Click the image for more details and to order.

The Best British Short Stories 2012

Includes my prize winning story 'Half-mown Lawn.' Published by Salt Publishing (April 2012). Click the image to order.

web fiction I like

Triptych: Nuala O'Connor — NEW FLASH FICTION REVIEW
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What do you Mean? by Kerry Hadley-Pryce @ the incubator
She Picks Up The Cat by Hannah Stevens @ Fairlight Books
So Many People by Tania Hershman @ Synaesthesia
Scablands by Jonathan Taylor @ Fairlight Shorts
Grandma's Sex Robot by William Hawkins @ The Guardian
The Boots by Kelly Griffiths @ forgelitmag.com
The Woe Shirt by Paulé Bártón @ The Paris Review
The Edge of the Shoal by Cynan Jones @ The Guardian

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