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Hello, I’m Claire King and I’m a writer.

I have two small children. They are possibly the most attractive and intelligent children in France.

Which is where we live.

I write fiction of all lengths, and am represented by Annette at the Annette Green Authors’ Agency.

My first novel – The Night Rainbow – will be published by Bloomsbury in the UK (March 2013), USA and Germany and in Dutch by AW Bruna/Orlando.

If you would like to hear from me when the book is launched, please do send me an email! contact@claire-king.com

My short fiction has been published in online and in print and I was longlisted by BBC Radio 4 for their Opening Lines programme.

I am currently the fiction editor for The View From Here literary magazine. For submissions please use this link.

I grew up in Mexborough, South Yorkshire and studied economics at Newnham College, Cambridge. I spent twenty years working in business before finally deciding what I want to be when I grow up:

A writer

My short story ‘Wine at Breakfast’ was a runner up in the Bristol Short Story Prize 2010 and featured in the anthology, published July 2010. You can read reviews here, here and  here and then you can buy it here

My short story ‘The Gift’ won first prize in the Writers’ Forum magazine competition, August/September 2010.

You can find some of my flash fiction ‘Peach’ and ‘Peach (2)’ on Metazen (www.metazen.ca) and an authors interview on the metazen blog.

I was shortlisted and highly commended by the judge in the 2010 Sean O’Faolain Short Story Competition and shortlisted in the New Scientist flash fiction competition 2010 with Biotechnology Paper 1

You can read some of my darker flash fiction up on fictionaut and at 52/250 - My flash pieces were published in each of their qurterly reviews, including ‘Flesh and Blood‘ in thirteen, ‘Anything Again‘ in twentysix, ‘It Stops‘ in thirtynine and ‘Redux’ in ‘fiftytwo’.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I would love to hear from you. If you’d like me to stay in touch you can find me on facebook here