Judith Wilson is a prize-winning writer of short stories. She also writes longer fiction. Her work is imbued with a strong sense of place, clarity of language, and a subtle sense of humour.
Geoff Dyer’s tender, comic, beautifully detailed memoir of his working class, suburban childhood in Cheltenham, HOMEWORK (Canongate Books, £11.99), is both a slice of social history, and a gloriously written tribute to his childhood and teenage years.
Maggie O’Farrell’s LAND (£25, Tinder Press) is a gloriously written, family saga set in nineteenth century Ireland, in the wake of the Irish Potato Famine of the mid 1800s.
In July, I attended the launch of the Fish Anthology 2026, in Bantry, Ireland. I was able to do a short reading from my short story, ‘The Music Room’, which was awarded an Honorary Mention in the Short Story category.
