September 2020: Recipient 001, Ruskin Smith
We are very excited to announce the first recipient Ruskin Smith. He sent over an email with 2 examples of his work and they were both short stories we fell in love with. I want to read a whole book of his work - I want to spend more time in the worlds and with the lives he describes so carefully.
Bio: Ruskin Smith is from Hull but lives in Lancaster now, with his partner and their two young daughters. He has done lots of different jobs over the yearsâincluding admin, factory, retail, labouringâbetween spells of incapacity for work with mental health problems. He started writing consistently around the age of forty. He has had fiction published in thi wurd and on the common breath community blog. Despite not having a degree he was offered a place on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, and graduated with Distinction in 2018. He was long-listed for the Fish Short Memoir Prize 2020.
Links below if you want to read his work, listen to it, or follow him online:
- Read âOrdinary Clouds'
- Read âLucky Daysâ
- âLucky Daysâ is also for purchase on thi wurd's website and you can follow them on twitter too.
- You can listen to the stories read together by Ruskin or below âŚ
- ⌠as well as separately on Ruskin's Soundcloud
- And he's on Twitter as well!