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Alex Aspden
Alex Aspden is a writer based in London. His short fiction has appeared in multiple publications, most recently in The Interpreter’s House. He was longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize in 2022 and has previously been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.

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Under the Paving Stones, the Sofa

Prize Entry

September 2022

Alex Aspden

Prize Entry

September 2022

The email telling us to return to the office came last week, but I know when I step off the train that I can’t...

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fiction

April 2012

They Told the Story from the Lighthouse

Chimene Suleyman

fiction

April 2012

I found Margate watching the sea. And I walked the streets thinking they had left it sometime in the...

poetry

November 2011

Cooper's Hawk

Elyse Fenton

poetry

November 2011

My breath’s the wind’s breathless down-stroke hasty claw like the gnarred finger of juniper just now clambering for a...

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...

 

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