The new short story, All the Clearing House Darlings seems to be doing well. It has been shortlisted by the Bedford Writing Competition: International Short Story & Poetry Awards. You can read more about the contest here.
The judge for this particular category is Patrick McGuinness and the following biography is taken from the Bedford Competition’s website:
Patrick McGuinness is a poet and novelist, and Professor of French at the University of Oxford. His first novel, The Last Hundred Days (2011), was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, the Writers Club First Novel Award, and winner of the Writers Guild Award for Fiction and the Wales Book of the Year. In French, it was shortlisted for both the Prix Meedicis étranger and the Priz Fémina étranger, and won the Prix de la librairie Millepages and the Premier Roman étranger.
Patrick McGuinness, poet, novelist and Professor of French at the University of Oxford: this year’s judge for short story competition