The Galley Beggar Press 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 sixth finalist, from the 2015/16 longlist of twelve authors, is:

PHILIPPA FOUND

Philippa Found (b. 1982) worked as a curator and director of a contemporary London art gallery for seven years where she worked with internationally renowned artists such as Tracey Emin and wrote three non-fiction books about contemporary women’s art, The Body in Women’s Art Now: Embodied, Flux, and Recreation. Book two, Flux, was nominated for the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Book Prize, 2011. In 2015, Philippa graduated from the UEA Creative Writing Prose MA. She lives in London and is currently completing her first collection of short stories about female adolescence and body image in the Instagram generation, and how the things we desire can be our downfall. Her stories have been shortlisted in the Words & Women Prose competition and have been published by Ether Books, Egg box, and Newwriting.net.

Philippa’s longlisted short story, How To Be In Love With Your Best Friend, can be accessed for £1 here.

You can also freely access her story How To Be You, which was published in the London Journal of Fiction in April 2016.

Philippa also has a website full of interesting things.