PhD Student Wins Prestigious Ploughshares Short Story Prize

We are thrilled to announce that Molly Aitken, current SHU PhD student in Creative Writing, has won the prestigious Alice Hoffman Prize For Fiction 2024 for her story ‘Thresholds’, published in the 2023 Spring edition of Ploughshares. You can read the winning story here, and an interview with the author here. Molly’s second novel, Bright I Burn is out on June 6th, 2024, […]

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