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March 11, 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.'"
"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, released by Breakwater Books in 2016 |
New Short Pieces
"Fortune Bay, 1972" and "The Emergency Department" (memoir) 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 |