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Tag Archives: Literary fiction

Suneha Gowda

An immigrant’s bakery job becomes a battleground for survival, humour, and belonging

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025November 26, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Contemporary fiction, Creative non-fiction, Literary fictionLeave a comment on Suneha Gowda

Sarah Dalkin

She longs for a home she can shutter against a corrupt world, and wash the blood from her hands. A literary thriller with echoes of Tana French

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025November 27, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Contemporary fiction, Crime, Literary fictionLeave a comment on Sarah Dalkin

Lorenzo Di Brino

A London split by a wall; two sisters on opposing sides, torn apart by ideology

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025December 1, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Literary fiction, Political thrillerLeave a comment on Lorenzo Di Brino

Joseph Idalu

Victory comes at a tremendous personal cost for Mr O after he gets Lapite registered in camp

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025November 26, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Contemporary fiction, Literary fiction, Short storyLeave a comment on Joseph Idalu

James Castles

Doctor, Doctor is an intimate portrayal of the life of a new NHS doctor, and how the job breaks him

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025November 26, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Contemporary fiction, LGBTQ+, Literary fictionLeave a comment on James Castles

Ever McMillan

Seeking escape from a directionless life, a young man finds purpose, and devastation, in the wild Sierra Nevada Mountains

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025November 27, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Coming-of-age, Contemporary fiction, Literary fictionLeave a comment on Ever McMillan

Emily Johnson

Two musicians, two careers, ten years, one romance. Fame eats Maisie and Joey alive; the Internet lays the table

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025November 26, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Commercial fiction, Literary fiction, RomanceLeave a comment on Emily Johnson

Ellie Feltovic

Revenant is a tumultuous coming-of-age ghost story following two teenagers as they navigate grief, loss, love, and friendship in the 1990s

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025November 26, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Coming-of-age, Contemporary fiction, Literary fictionLeave a comment on Ellie Feltovic

Alexandra Narin

When stories become living, parasitic beings inside your own body, do you control your life? Or do they?

Posted byJonathan GibbsNovember 26, 2025November 26, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2025Tags: Literary fiction, Magical realism, Women's fictionLeave a comment on Alexandra Narin

Sophie Lyon

A 1960s student gets pregnant, reluctantly marries the baby’s father and struggles with the consequences

Posted byJonathan GibbsApril 15, 2025April 16, 2025Posted inCreative Writing, MFA Creative Writing 2024Tags: Coming-of-age, Literary fiction, Women's fictionLeave a comment on Sophie Lyon

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