The GBP Short Story Prize 2016/17 is currently open to submissions. While it is, we'll be revisiting last year's fantastic longlist- and shortlistees, with links to their work.

 

Our fifth finalist, from the 2015/16 longlist of twelve authors, is:

 

GONZALO C. GARCIA

 

Gonzalo Ceron Garcia is a PhD graduate in creative writing from the University of Kent. His interests are neo-liberal reforms in Chile in relation to cultural authenticity, memory, nostalgia, and historical trauma. He wrote his first novel in Canterbury alongside a theoretical thesis involving identity reconstructions in indigenous communities living in urban spaces. He is currently living in Santiago, Chile, where he has just finished a novel called We Are The End, a book heavily influenced by his interest in the relationship between video games, digital culture and everyday constructions of narrative.

 

Fellow novelist Scarlett Thomas has called Gonzalo “a unique and breath-taking talent.”

 

Gonzalo’s longlisted short story, Like Penguins in the Desert, can be accessed for £1 here.

 

Subsequent to last year’s Prize, we’re also delighted to tell you that Galley Beggar Press have signed Gonzalo with his debut novel – We Are The End – which will be released in Spring 2017.