Nicholas Petty | Writer
It is Summer at Camp Pomodoro
Longlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award and the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize.
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Notes from a Precipice
Longlisted in the 2023 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize judged by Ottessa Moshfegh, Mariana Enriquez, and Tiffany Tsao, and published in the corresponding anthology.
Published in the Brixton Review of Books.
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Lino has sat on his glasses
Longlisted for the 2022/23 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize judged by Jon McGregor, Jarred McGinnis, and Meena Kandasamy.
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Close Your Eyes
Winner of the 2024 Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 Manchester Fiction Prize judged by Lara Williams, Laura Barnett, Oliver Harris
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The Longhouse
Awarded 2nd Place in the 2022 Fish Publishing Short Story Prize judged by Sarah Hall. Published in the associated anthology.
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Maldonado
Awarded 3rd place in the 2021 Short Fiction Journal/University of Essex Short Story Prize judged by Irenosen Okojie.
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The Floating Yoda on the Right
Awarded 3rd place in The 2019/20 London Magazine Short Story Prize judged by Alice Slater, Kit Caless, and Ian Sansom. Published in the October/November 2020 issue.
These Violent Hands
Shortlisted for The 2019 Bristol Short Story Prize and published in the corresponding anthology.
The Gold in the Giblets
Published in the Summer 2020 issue of The Moth Magazine
Down in the Mud on Limehouse Beach
Commended in the 2018 Bath Short Story Award and published in the corresponding anthology.
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