Christine Coates Runner-up for The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Volume 2

Congratulations to PEN SA member Christine Coates, who has been named a runner-up in Black Letter Media’s The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Volume 2 writing prize.

Coates was interviewed about the story she submitted, “A Night to Remember”:

BLM: How did you come to the craft of writing… or did it come to you?

Christine Coates: From very young I have always loved reading and stories. I used to make little books and then write stories or poems in them. Perhaps poetry came first and then stories – they found me. Later, when I began to write seriously, I found myself writing memoir. There’s a story I tell over and over. I belong to a women’s collective and I go there to find longer stories – novels. Then I have to spend long periods alone writing

Read Black Letter Media’s interview with Coates and see the announcement of the prize.

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