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Summer 2021
Early Reviews of Last Hummingbird West of Chile
"Everyone and everything has its own point of view, filled with aches, pains and longings. Sounds entirely weird right? But wait, you haven’t experienced the burgeoning imagination of Nicholas, coupled with his wide range of knowledge and his lyrical understanding of flow in language." –Barb Minett, Guelph Today Full Review "It is Ruddock’s gifted command of language, wit and wild imagination that suspends all disbelief and takes readers on a fantastic voyage, often through dark scenes and controversial themes." –Guelph Today Full Interview 
"A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird West of Chile spins a tale of adventure that is in turn comedic, violent, poignant and thoughtful."
–Atlantic Books Full Review Launch
Last Hummingbird West of Chile Nicholas Ruddock's new novel is released with Breakwater Books 
March 2020
The Moth Poetry Prize shortlist, chosen by the American poet Claudia Rankine, is announced today. The skilful use of language in Nicholas Ruddock’s Genetic Memory, Rankine says, "allows us to simultaneously exist in the past, present, and future."
The story "Ventimiglia" is shortlisted for the Circus Berlin Short Story Award 2020. Read an excerpt here.
"Esther" wins the 2017 Bridport Prize for fiction. The judge, Peter Hobbs, writes: "Technically so accomplished, but playful too in its form and its long sentences. It plays with plot more than most stories, but the work of plotting is done so slyly it is almost invisible. There are many details, but none are extraneous. It has real humanity to it, and a tremendous cumulative power, conjuring the lives of its protagonists in a handful of pages, allowing us to live beside them for years, and ensuring that the final emotional pay-off is utterly devastating." 
"The Phosphorescence," a short story, is in Brick #98 
Shortlisted for the EFG Short Story Award for "The Phosphorescence"
Night Ambulance, a novel, is released by Breakwater Books, 2016 Night Ambulance from translucence on Vimeo. |
Recent Short Fiction
"Fortune Bay, 1972" and "The Emergency Department" Newfoundland Quarterly 2019 "Esther" Bridport Prize Anthology Winner of the 2017 Bridport Prize for Short Fiction "The Phosphorescence" Brick Magazine 98 Winter 2017 And shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2016 "Knight Errant" Brick Magazine 97 May 2016 Toronto "Three Microfictions" Irish Pages 2015 Belfast, Ireland "Mario Vargas Llosa" Exile Quarterly 2015 Toronto "Transformation" Fish 2015, second place Ireland "Snow" CBC Creative Nonfiction Longlist 2015 "George Mallory" Bridport Anthology 2014, second place UK "Polio" Bridport Anthology 2013, first place UK |