Carys Bray

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My Stories

On the web:

My Burglar

Sinking

The Ice Baby

Dancing in the Kitchen

What it's Like

Sweet Home

On the Way Home

The Rescue
Download:
Ether Books


In print:

The Delinquent ~ The Baby Aisle

Mslexia ~ The Countdown

Mslexia ~ Just in Case

Dialogue ~ Scaling Never

PoemMemoirStory ~ Bed Rest

Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon Thought















And forthcoming in:

Goggle Publishing

The Yellow Room




Illustration by Scott Nellis

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I write short fiction and co-edit Paraxis with Claire Massey and Andy Hedgecock. I've had stories published in New Fairy Tales, Black Market Review, Flash Mob: Flax026, The Pygmy Giant, Mslexia, The Front View, The Delinquent, Dialogue, The Ranfurly Review, The Yellow Room and PoemMemoirStory. Several stories are available for download via Ether Books and Goggle Publishing. I won the 2010 Edge Hill Short Story MA Prize and the Strictly Writing Award. My Scott Prize winning collection 'Sweet Home' will be published in November.
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  • ▼  2012 (55)
    • ►  June (1)
      • Word Soup Reviewed
    • ►  May (5)
      • Word Soup ~ Womanhood
      • Gone Writing
      • The Birth Machine ~ Elizabeth Baines
      • Edge Hill Prize Shortlist 2012
      • The Scott Prize
    • ►  April (27)
      • Freaks
      • Chameleon ~ Beda Higgins
      • Lying Together ~ Gaynor Arnold
      • Funderland ~ Nigel Jarrett
      • Listen Close to Me ~ Catherine Eisner
      • Saints and Sinners ~ Edna O'Brien
      • The Beautiful Indifference ~ Sarah Hall
      • Pictures From Hopper ~ Neil Campbell
      • Starlings ~ Erinna Mettler
      • Household Worms ~ Stanley Donwood
      • Everyone's Just So, So Special ~ Robert Shearman
      • The Keys of Babylon ~ Robert Minhinnick
      • Smoked Meat ~ Rowena Macdonald
      • This is the Quickest Way Down ~ Charles Christian
      • Last Fling ~ Sue Gee
      • Campfire Chillers ~ Dave Jeffery
      • The Silver Wind ~ Nina Allan
      • One Thousand and One Nights ~ Hanan Al-Shaykh
      • Dancing in the Asylum ~ Fred Johnston
      • Married Love ~ Tessa Hadley
      • A Pitying of Doves ~ Felicity McCall
      • Quiet Houses ~ Simon Kurt Unsworth
      • Somewhere in Minnesota ~ Orfhlaith Foyle
      • A Book of Blues ~ Courttia Newland
      • Dogsbodies and Scumsters ~ Alan McCormick
      • Ten Stories About Smoking ~ Stuart Evers
      • 12 Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas ~ Stuart Mac...
    • ▼  March (11)
      • Feather ~ David Rix
      • And ~ Jim Mullarkey
      • New World Fairy Tales ~ Cassandra Parkin
      • The War Tour ~ Zoe Lambert
      • Somewhere Else, or Even Here ~ A.J Ashworth
      • 2012 Edge Hill Prize longlist
      • Bed rest
      • The long and the short of it...
      • Jo Powell Prize: Creative Crime, Student Writing C...
      • Love: Terms and Conditions
      • Swimming in Short Stories
    • ►  February (7)
      • Scott Prize Shortlist
      • Chris Beckett's Liverpool Reading
      • Final installment of teeth
      • Paraxis 03
      • More Research
      • Edge Hill Prize: 'Doesn't have the reach or the ba...
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2011 (82)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (3)
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My Blog List

  • WOMEN RULE WRITER
    ÉILÍS NÍ DHUIBHNE REVIEW - My review of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's wonderful collection *The Shelter of Neighbours* is now live here at *The Short Review*. Also check out the interview wi...
    18 minutes ago
  • Me And My Big Mouth
    A Song for Sunday - My mate Lance is the frontman and songwriter for Cusack. Here he is doing a cover version of Neil Young's Birds. You can hear some of their original music ...
    15 hours ago
  • Mike French
    An Android Wakes - I'm currently writing a science fiction serial called *An Android Wakes*over at Elsewhen Press. It's free and the second part has just gone up here...
    22 hours ago
  • Elizabeth Baines
    'Used to Be' review - I've recently been moaning about the lottery of competitions, but of course I'm thrilled whenever I get anywhere in one. Mind you, when I do I tend to fi...
    1 day ago
  • Echo Soundings
    Offline On Water - Ports of call over the next couple of weeks... wind permitting View In anticipation June 2012 in a larger map
    2 days ago
  • The Mslexia Blog
    I’m a writer, so I write - I’m amazed when writers say they always believed they were brilliant, always knew they’d make it, never had any doubts. That’s not been my experience. Sure...
    2 days ago
  • Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk
    Banning Kindles is no way of celebrating books - Is your e-reader turning you into a 'robot'? A campaign from Hay bookseller Derek Addyman to drive Amazon's Kindle out of town is just silly We all love ...
    2 days ago
  • Words & Fixtures
    24-hour arty people - Proof that I have most definitely finally lost it has to be signing up for the 24 Arty People project, which takes place tonight. From midnight Friday thro...
    2 days ago
  • The Short Review
    Letter from the Editor - Hiatus - *Letter from The Editor* The June 2012 issue will be the last Short Review issue for a little while, the journal will be on hiatus for at least a few month...
    2 days ago
  • For Books' Sake
    For Books’ Sake Talks To: Shelley Harris - FBS: Your début novel, Jubilee, set during the Silver Jubilee celebrations of 1977, has been released to coincide with this year’s Diamond Jubilee festivit...
    2 days ago
  • Strictly Writing
    A new member...and why this published author has gone down the self-publishing route - *Today we'd like to welcome (quick blast of trumpets) the newest member of the Strictly Writing team, Tracey Sinclair! * *Tracey works as a freelance copy...
    2 days ago
  • Head above Water
    #fridayflash Hard shoulder - I fancied trying to keep within a 500 word limit. It’s late in the day and this is a bit of a riff but anyhow… On the hard shoulder she gave me the cold sh...
    2 days ago
  • A Salted
    100 RPM - Caroline Smailes has put together an anthology of 100 tiny fictions (each 100 words or less) inspired by music. All monies from sales of the ebook will go ...
    2 days ago
  • Do a Barrel Roll
    Pulp Idol Finals - Tonight I am zipping over to Liverpool to take part in the Pulp Idol 2012 Live Final as part of the closing gala for the Writing on the Wall Festival. Pulp ...
    3 days ago
  • Caroline Smailes
    Publishing ‘100 RPM’ - So, I’d decided that it’d be a good idea to put together a collection of flash fiction stories, all inspired by songs on YouTube. And I’d decided that the ...
    3 days ago
  • Broken Biro
    More swans, no story - If you're looking for my prize-winning story Two Swans, it isn't here - it's HERE. These are just a couple of pictures of black swans, because my talking ...
    4 days ago
  • The Ether Blog
    Writer Wednesday: Rowena Macdonald - [image: 0112_rowena] Rowena Macdonald was born on the Isle of Wight, grew up in the West Midlands and studied at the Universities of Sussex and Warwick...
    4 days ago
  • FictionBitch
    Women just have to do men down, don't they? - A little belatedly (I'm busy writing), here's an article on gender bias in the fiction industry, by Joanna Trollope, chair of this year's Fiction Prize for...
    5 days ago
  • Neil Gaiman's Journal
    The Last Kickstarter Post - We're in the last four days of Amanda's Kickstarter. Over the last almost-a-month of the Kickstarter she's gathered a huge amount of support, set records f...
    6 days ago
  • My Shitty Twenties
    Trois, deux, une… Holiday Countdown Time - “Mum, why don’t you get some French wine to get you in the mood for our French holiday?” said Tom in the supermarket last week. “That’s not a bad idea.” I ...
    1 week ago
  • TaniaWrites
    This Week... Stroud, Spread the Word, and Online Story Workshop - So, above is a photo which warms my heart - the first sighting of MMWAUP in a bookshop, the fabulous Waterstones Bristol Galleries! They now have several ...
    1 week ago
  • blog.saltpublishing.com
    A Salty Catch Up - It has been such a busy time here at Salt HQ of late, with so much going on and planned for the next few months that we thought we’d take a bit of time o...
    1 week ago
  • Who the fudge is Benjamin Judge?
    Postcards to David. No. 7. -
    1 week ago
  • How to Write a Novel
    A PAEAN TO DARTMOOR - Hound Tor The lovely people at Cyprus Well are posting fiction podcasts by writers who live in the South West. Their first episode includes an extract from ...
    1 week ago
  • A. J. Ashworth
    Goodreads - Congratulations to the three people who have each won a copy of my book via the books and reading website Goodreads. Copies will be with you soon - but p...
    2 weeks ago
  • Trying to write, training to tri
    Good things never last - And this is so true of my writing commitments which I brandished over four months ago. I stopped writing to do a bit of decorating and then I didn't write ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Claire King
    You Are What You Meet - “So this makes me a bonnet-wearing, blood-sucking, 30-something, single, serial-killing hobbit sharing my summer holidays backpacking through Thailand with...
    2 weeks ago
  • Pages
    READING IN BRADFORD - Robert Sheppard reading with Patricia Farrell: Monday 11th June at 8.30p.m at the New Beehive Inn, Westgate, Bradford BD1 3AA. (About 10 minutes walk fro...
    2 weeks ago
  • The Yellow Room Editor
    The Yellow Room Spring Competition Shortlisted Stories - It has been a very busy few weeks for me on many fronts, but I have finally read all the stories entered in The Yellow Room Spring Competition 2012 and ca...
    2 weeks ago
  • Gathering Scraps | Claire Massey
    Found cities and more imaginary bookshops - Cities found on a Wednesday afternoon in Preston Hilltop Books The Bookcoat Man
    3 weeks ago
  • forgetting the time
    Night of the Quicken Trees, Claire Keegan - So, Claire Keegan's second collection of short stories *Walk the Blue Fields *has been my companion for the past two weeks, during my holiday to Croatia a...
    3 weeks ago
  • Comments on: Home
    Flash - I’m delighted to say that a flash-fiction of mine – Hammer – will be appearing in the new anthology Jawbreakers, edited by Calum Kerr and Valerie O’Riordan...
    4 weeks ago
  • Adam Marek
    Guest editing the Afterword - All this week, I have been guest editor on the Canadian National Post‘s book blog, The Afterword. I wrote four posts for them about writing, reading, and t...
    4 weeks ago
  • written in water
    A Little Hole - So, in response to that post below, *Going, going ...* I’ve kept track of a month’s worth of reading. *Anansi Boys*, by Neil Gaiman; *The Corner That Hel...
    5 weeks ago
  • Neverending Stories
    Please place your seat in the upright position! - I received news that my story was the first of the finalists in the Flybe and Stream Publishing Short Story Competition. That means that if you’re on a fli...
    5 weeks ago
  • fall and fall again
    Dead quick newsy one* - UPDATE 20/04: The below event has been postponed – BIG apologies if you were planning on coming. I’ll let you know when we set a new date. Meanwhile there’...
    2 months ago
  • The Endist » Happy Happy Happy
    Book Giveaway – The Winners - So. The ‘automatic’ winner, i.e. the person who left the last comment before the deadline, is… DAVE HARTLEY. Who very nearly won last year, but just missed...
    2 months ago
  • Hyperwriter at home
    Take a Leap success - It all started with an email which promoted a competition run by Wordpress.com. Writers were encouraged to enter submissions written around the theme of 'T...
    2 months ago
  • The War Tour
    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! - Despite a furious bidding war between The Daily Mail, The Sun and The Mirror, as well as several journalists camping outside her home, short story writer Z...
    3 months ago
  • Nik's Blog
    This Site Has Moved - This site has moved to here.
    5 months ago
  • Ailsa Cox
    Teaching the Short Story - Out now! With chapters by Charles E. May, Peter Wright, Michael Greaney, Paola Trimarco, Martin Scofield, Andy Sawyer, Linden Peach, Dean Baldwin and you...
    1 year ago
  • Margaret Atwood: Year of the Flood
    Looking Back on Earth Day 2010 - Looking back on Earth Day, 2010: A year ago, the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill had not yet happened; nor had the devastating earthquake and tsunami...
    1 year ago
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