Author Spotlight: Lesley Bannatyne

‼️ On Friday, March 14th, 2024 our spotlight was aimed at the incredible Lesley Bannatyne, recipient of the 2018 Bosque Literary Journal fiction prize, 🏅the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award first place for fiction 🥇 and theghoststory.com 2020 summer fiction prize! 🏆 Lesley’s debut short story collection Unaccustomed to Grace was published in 2022 by Kallisto Gaia Press. 📚

💡Learn all about the short story and how to interweave complex narrative threads! You won’t want to miss this deep-dive into Bannatyne’s work ✍️ Lesley joined Cat Dvorak from CWLSS for a craft discussion on narrative and character, conversation about how humor and horror function together in short story, and good company! 🙌

🚨 Lesley is an alumni of the HES Creative Writing and Literature ALM! 👩‍🏫 As a freelance journalist, Lesley has covered stories ranging from druids in Massachusetts to relief workers in Bolivia. She writes extensively on popular culture, and her most recent non-fiction book, Halloween Nation, was short-listed for a Bram Stoker Award 🎃 Her work has been published in the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Christian Science Monitor, and Zone 3, Sequestrum, Pangyrus, Craft, and other literary magazines. 📖

🔗 Find out More and Buy Her Book Here:
https://www.iskullhalloween.com/