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  MELISSA WAN

SHORT FICTION

My published stories can be found in the following places:

ART DECADE | Published in 'Waiting for the Gift: Stories Inspired by Low' (2022), edited by Richard V. Hirst. Published by Cōnfingō Publishing.

BIRDIE IN THE BIG SMOKE | Published in Test Signal (2021), an anthology of the best contemporary Northern writing. Published by Dead Ink Books and Bloomsbury.

THIS MUST BE EARTH | Available to buy as a single signed short-story chapbook with Nightjar Press (2021). Limited edition of 200 copies.

JOSEPH, WHEN IT'S 3AM AND I STILL CAN'T SLEEP | Published by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation (2020) in Issue #2 of their 'Alone Together' initiative. They presented the work of faculty and fellows written in the confines of their homes during the Coronavirus outbreak, and coordinated video conversations between writers.

You can listen to me reading this story and answering a question from a fellow Alone Together writer here:
For a captioned version, click here. Or download a transcript of the story.

SAN SALVADOR | Published in Vagabond, Bulgaria's English Monthly (2020). The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation (EKF) publishes work by fellows of the Sozopol Fiction Seminars 2019 and CapitaLiterature.

Here you can watch the International Literary Performance in which I read alongside my fellow writers at the 
Peroto Literary Club in Sofia. In English and Bulgarian.

My story 'San Salvador' is from 15:00 - 18:45. Download a transcript of the story here.
REST IN PEACE, MADAME WONG | Published in the UEA MA Prose Fiction Anthology 2019. Published by Egg Box Publishing.

THE HUSBAND AND THE WIFE GO TO THE SEASIDE | ​Republished in Salt's Best British Short Stories 2019, edited by Nicholas Royle.

WELL HERE I AM RIGHT BACK WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY | Published by the Mechanics' Institute Review Online (2018).

THE HUSBAND AND THE WIFE GO TO THE SEASIDE | Published in Seaside Special: Postcards From the Edge (2018), edited by Jenn Ashworth. Published by Bluemoose Books.

ARTICLES, REVIEWS, OTHER

THE FLANEUR, THE CARTOGRAPHER AND THE VOYEUR | A review of Nicholas Royle's collection of stories, 'London Gothic'. Written for The Word Factory (2021).

SUBMIT! | A fairly masochistic essay on why you should submit your work to literary magazines and websites. Written for New Writing North (2021).

PLACES (AND PEOPLE) GONE TO PIECES | A list of books which inspired the story published in 'Test Signal', compiled for Bookshop.org (2021).

BETWEEN POETRY AND PORNOGRAPHY | Article written for The Word Factory (2019) and available to read here.

​The pictured yellow scales or shore lichen (xanthoria parietina) live on Marselisborg Strand in Århus, Denmark.​

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