Stephen Hargadon’s short stories have appeared in Black Static, Tales from the Shadow Booth, Crimewave, Structo, Popshot, Cafe Stories, the Irish Post, and LossLit. His non-fiction has featured on the Litro website (including a well-received article on the joys of secondhand bookshops) and he has written on short fiction for Thresholds, the international short story forum.

• Runner-up, Dinesh Allirajah prize for short fiction, 2018 (Comma Press & UCLan). ‘The Lull’ was published in the competition anthology, Cafe Stories.
• Shortlisted for the 2017 Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for Arts Journalism
• Runner-up, Irish Post Short Story Competition, 2016

He lives in the north of England.

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