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Dan Powell
Dan’s prize-winning short fiction has appeared in the pages of Being Dad, The Lonely Voice, Unthology, The London Magazine and Best British Short Stories. His debut collection of stories, Looking Out Of Broken Windows, was shortlisted for the Scott Prize and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Edge Hill Prize. He is currently working on a second story collection and a debut novel, and he is a First Story writer-in-residence. Dan’s research in creative writing at University of Leicester explores how the staging of closure in the British short story has evolved since the genre’s beginnings in the early-eighteenth century. The creative component of his thesis is a collection of twelve short stories written using preclosural writing frames generated from the data from his study’s initial preclosural analysis. Dan hopes that the initial reading study, the creative element, and the thesis’s closing critical analysis of the methodology’s impact upon his writing process and the stories produced, will all combine to provide new insight into the utility of this approach for his own writing and that of other author-practitioners and teachers of short fiction writing. He can be found on twitter as @danpowfiction.