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Short Stories

My published and unpublished short stories.

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WRITING COMPETITION UPDATE Dear Readers and Writers, Thank you so much for all your wonderful submissions to The Kureishi Chronicle’s first writing competition. We are now…

Mar 15

Dear Readers, my dispatches will always be free and open to everyone. I am unable to use my hands and I’m writing, via dictation, with the help of my…

Mar 12

WRITING COMPETITION Dear Readers, I was so enlivened by your responses to my previous thread in which I asked you to write me a story that I have decided to host a …

Feb 8

IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN A WRITING EXERCISE, HERE IS ONE I OFTEN SET FOR MY STUDENTS, WHICH THEY SEEM TO ENJOY. Create a character, make one person come alive on the page. Two-hundred and fifty words. I’d like to see what you come up with. Make it lively a…

Feb 3

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE SHORT STORIES?One of my favourite short story collections is A Manuel For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin. The other is The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant.

Jan 25

Published by Faber and Faber Ltd

Jan 23

Dear Readers, my dispatches will always be free and open to everyone. I am unable to use my hands and I’m writing, via dictation, with the help of my…

Sep 26, 2022

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