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Claire Carroll
Claire Carroll is a writer based in Somerset UK, whose work explores our relationship with nature and technology. She has recently finished writing a collection of experimental short stories that deal with loss, desire and the anxiety brought about by the climate crisis. Her work is published in Perhappened Magazine, Reflex Fiction, Lunate and Dust Magazine, and she is the recipient of the 2021 Short Fiction Journal & University of Essex International Wild Writing Prize. 

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My Brain is Boiling with Ideas

Fiction

August 2021

Claire Carroll

Fiction

August 2021

It’s Sunday, after lunch. The sun hovers, full up. The houses – the tarmac, the lampposts, the cars in the driveways – glitter in...

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Prize Entry

April 2015

Les Archives du Coeur

Paul McQuade

Prize Entry

April 2015

The bike wheels skit and bounce on the loose dirt path. The smell of hot rubber and the smell...

poetry

June 2015

Hotel

Mónica de la Torre

poetry

June 2015

Hotel   The housekeeper has children living in town with her but her husband and relatives are in Somalia....

Prize Entry

April 2017

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Anna Glendenning

Prize Entry

April 2017

 1. PhD   Blue bedroom, Grandma’s house, Aigburth, Liverpool   I gave birth to one hundred thousand words. Tessellated,...

 

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