The Writers of Wales Database

HOWITT, HOLLY

Website: www.hollyhowitt.com

Holly is based in Cardiff. She won the Leaf Books 2006 Short Story competition with her story entitled ’Water’ and has had three short stories included in a collection entitled The Final Theory and Other Stories (Leaf Books, 2006). Holly has also had her work published in a Parthian anthology, as well as a collection of her microfictions published by Cinnamon in 2008. Her novella Schoolboy was published by Cinnamon in September, 2009. Holly is a Member of Academi.

Reviews:
With respect to Dinner Time (Cinnamon Press, 2008):

“…she is probably the one student I taught in six years at Cardiff university who has the undoubted ability to achieve truly interesting and exciting things in her writing on a major scale: what is more she has written two novellas and a novel and is barely 25…”
Richard Gwyn 


Selected Publications:
Dinner Time (Cinnamon Press, 2008)
The Schoolboy (Cinnamon Press, 2009)

Contributed to:
The Final Theory and Other Stories: The Leaf Books Short Story Anthology (contributor) (Leaf Books, 2006)
Bit on the Side (contributor) (Parthian, 2007)
Exposure (co-editor) (Cinnamon, 2010)




Dinner Time (Cinnamon Press, 2008)

A collection of microfictions. One of the stories, ’Dinner Time’, is a sequence describing, powerfully, the extremities of lust, longing and cruelty between a man and a woman.

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The Schoolboy (Cinnamon Press, 2009)

The Schoolboy is not for the faint-hearted. The narrative follows Nick during his last year at school. Plagued by secrets, self-doubt, guilt and fury, the flaws in his character inevitably lead him into the hands of the damaged, unscrupulous and malevolent.

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