Adena Graham
Fiction
Reviews
"The occasional flash fiction pieces are firework sparks of imagery and energy. Their invigorating snapshots and fragments break up the poetry and longer short stories. Pieces like Adena Graham’s ‘The Hut’ demonstrate how much can be conveyed in a single page: an entire story’s worth of narrative progression is encapsulated in a few hundred words, as a young woman circumnavigates the world. It is only when she returns to her starting point that she realises she is trapped in her own inert, comatose mind." Veronica Sullivan, The Writers Bloc
"From darkly creepy stories about psychopaths roaming on the edge of ‘wildness’, to a poems and stories about the false belief we have on the how ‘tameable’ our landscape is, Popshot showcases raw, dangerous and challenging fiction from some of the best up and coming writers. I especially enjoyed Overgrown Garden by Anthony Holness, Magnum Opus by Corin Dilip Faife and Talbot by Adena Graham." Art Bites
Two of my short stories (The Hut , and The Memory Jar) have been placed on the Mastering Inquiry in the 21st Century teaching syllabus: Mastering Inquiry
My short story Parrotlytic won third prize in the To Hull and Back humorous story competition 2015, and a second, Besta, also appears alongside it in the anthology. The 2015 anthology can be purchased here.
I was runner-up in the Faber Academy Quickfic competiton on 24/4/15 with my flash fiction story, How to Make a Man Disappear, and again on 23/10/15 with Out of Time
A condensed version of The Hut was also shortlisted for the Ink Tears Flash Fiction Prize 2015. Judge's comments: "I could highlight Futures by Annmarie Allen, The Hut by Adena Graham, Light Snacks by Natalia Theodoridou, Dragonflies by Sally Jubb, Moment of Truth by John Bunting . . . All of these stories were a fraction away from the final winners."
My short story More Than Life was Highly Commended in the Writers' Village International Short Fiction Award Winter 2015: 'All the 18 winning stories in this round showed craft skills, structure and originality in abundance.' John Yeoman.
I won first prize in the Hour of Writes competition on 5/2/15 for their 'Comedy of Terror' prompt. The story can be read here.
I won the Ink Tears 2016 Short Story Competition with my story Wave Theory which can be read here.