About
Laura Besley is the author of two micro fiction collections, (Un)Natural Elements (Beir Bua Press, 2021) and 100neHundred (Arachne Press, 2021), as well as a flash fiction collection, The Almost Mothers (Dahlia Books, 2020).
She has been widely published in online journals, print journals and anthologies, including Best Small Fictions (2021). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (‘No Matter What’, The Sunlight Press), Best Micro Fiction (‘Like Swans Gliding’, Fictive Dream and ‘Silenced’, Emerge Literary Journal) and she has been listed by TSS Publishing as one of the top 50 British and Irish Flash Fiction writers with her story ‘On Repeat’ (Reflex Fiction). She is an editor with Flash Fiction Magazine and is currently a Creative Writing MA student at the University of Leicester.
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Having lived in the Netherlands, Germany and Hong Kong, she now lives in land-locked central England and misses the sea.
