Laurence Sullivan

{{Short description|English author}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Laurence Sullivan

| birth_place = Birmingham, United Kingdom

| nationality = British

| education = MDrama (Hons), MA, PhD

| alma_mater = University of Kent

Utrecht University

University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute

Northumbria University

| genre = Short Fiction, Flash Fiction, Haiku

| website = {{URL|www.laurencesullivan.co.uk}}

}}

Laurence Sullivan (born 1992) is an English author of short stories, flash fiction, and haiku poetry. He grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and acquired his bachelor's degree from University of Kent, his master's degree from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, and his PhD, which analysed literary portrayals of women's domestic medicine during the eighteenth century, from Northumbria University.{{Cite web |title=‘Every woman her own physician’: literary portrayals of lay women medical practitioners on the page and stage in eighteenth-century Britain |url=https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/every-woman-her-own-physician-literary-portrayals-of-lay-women-me-4 |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Northumbria University Research Portal |language=en}}

Sullivan is the author of over forty short stories. As a runner-up in the Wicked Young Writer Awards: Gregory Maguire Award 2016, he has been published online, in multiple magazines and various anthologies. Sullivan has, also, been nominated for multiple awards.

Poetry and prose

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! Year !! Title !! Publication

2024 (November)

|Twice a Half-Life, Coming Out, Going Home, and Leftovers

|Flash Dances: 100 Little Queer Stories, Paradise Press{{Cite web |title=Flash Dances |url=https://guardianbookshop.com/flash-dances-9781904585985/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=The Guardian Bookshop |language=en}}

2023 (October)

|Bouquet of Goodbyes

|Sampson Low{{Cite web |last=albanlow |date=2023-10-24 |title=Bouquet of Goodbyes – Laurence Sullivan |url=https://sampsonlow.co/2023/10/24/bouquet-of-goodbyes-laurence-sullivan/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Sampson Low |language=en}}

2022 (July)

|Lives Entwined

|Firewords Magazine{{Cite web |title=Firewords 15 – Place |url=https://firewords.co.uk/fifteen |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Firewords |language=en-GB}}

2022 (May)

|Each and Every April

|Canopy 2022,{{Cite web |last=albanlow |date=2022-05-08 |title=CANOPY 3 – An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2022 |url=https://sampsonlow.co/2022/05/08/canopy-3-an-anthology-of-writing-for-the-urban-tree-festival-2022/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Sampson Low |language=en}} (Sampson Low)

2020 (July)

|Latency

|Lockdown Prize 2020, Fish Publishing{{Cite web |last=Clem |first=Jula |date=2020-07-02 |title=Lockdown - Best Haiku/Senryu |url=https://www.fishpublishing.com/2020/07/02/haiku-senryu-23-best/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Fish Publishing |language=en-GB}}

2020 (May)

|World Weary

|Popshot Quarterly, The Earth Issue, Chelsea Magazine Company{{Cite web |title=Issue Archives |url=https://www.popshotpopshot.com/magazine/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Popshot |language=en-US}}

2020 (April)

|World Haiku Series 2019

|Akita International Haiku Network{{Cite web |last=Hiruta |date=2020-04-19 |title=World Haiku Series 2019 (96) Haiku by Laurence Sullivan |url=https://akitahaiku.com/2020/04/20/world-haiku-series-2019-96-haiku-by-laurence-sullivan/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Akita International Haiku Network |language=en}}

2019 (October)

|Winter Coat

|Basho Memorial Museum

2019 (August)

|Establishing Connection

|Shipwrecked Anthology (Sampson Low{{Cite web|url=https://sampsonlow.co/2019/08/11/shipwrecked-museum-of-walking-chapbook/|title=Establishing Connection - Laurence Sullivan|website=Sampson Low}})

2019

(July)

|Musty Book and Border Wall

|11th Haiku Submissions Collection

(Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum{{Cite web|url=http://samidare.jp/basho/box/11th%20e%20haiku%20kushu%202019.pdf|title=Selected Haiku Submissions Collection|date=7 July 2019|website=11th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest|language=en}})

2019 (March 14th)

|Teapot

|Haiku Masters, NHK World

2019 (January 22nd)

|Blossom in the Wind

|Flash Fiction Magazine{{Cite web|url=https://flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2019/01/22/blossom-in-the-wind/|title=Blossom in the Wind|date=2019-01-22|website=Flash Fiction Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-28}}

2018 (October)

|The Pretender

|Across the Margin{{Cite news|url=http://acrossthemargin.com/the-pretender/|title="The Pretender" by Laurence Sullivan — Across The Margin|date=2 October 2018|access-date=31 October 2018}}

2018 (September)

|Unrequited

|Dime Show Review{{Cite web|url=https://www.dimeshowreview.com/unrequited-by-laurence-sullivan/|title=Unrequited by Laurence Sullivan|website=www.dimeshowreview.com|access-date=31 October 2018}}

2018 (August)

|Nest and Wisteria

|10th Haiku Submissions Collection

(Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum)

2018 (August)

|Wildflowers

|Haiku Masters, NHK World{{Citation|last=Corporation)|first=NHK (Japan Broadcasting|title=HAIKU MASTERS - TV - NHK WORLD-JAPAN - English|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/haiku_masters/gallery/?period=201808&category=haiku#oh201808_004|access-date=31 October 2018}}

2018 (July)

|Fanning the Flames

|Literary Orphans{{Cite web|url=http://www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/fanning-the-flames-by-laurence-sullivan/|title=Literary Orphans|last=Waldyn|first=Scott|date=18 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725153423/http://www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/fanning-the-flames-by-laurence-sullivan/|archive-date=2018-07-25|url-status=dead|access-date=25 July 2018}}

2018 (February)

|Gods

|Haiku Masters, NHK World{{Citation|last=(Japan Broadcasting Corporation), NHK|title=Gallery - HAIKU MASTERS in Yufuin, Oita - NHK WORLD|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/haiku_masters/event/201802/gallery20180226.html|access-date=4 April 2018}}

2018 (February)

|Nameless

|Ginosko Literary Journal{{Cite web|url=http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/images/ginosko20.pdf|title=Ginosko Literary Journal, Issue 20|last=Cesaretti|first=Robert Paul|date=12 February 2018|website=www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com|access-date=4 April 2018}}

2018 (January)

|Chasing Rainclouds

|The Literary Nest{{Cite news|url=https://theliterarynest.com/issues/vol-3-issue-4/fiction/laurence-sullivan/|title=Volume 3 Issue 4|last=Kelapure|first=Pratibha|date=26 December 2017|work=The Literary Nest|access-date=17 January 2018}}

2018 (January)

|Dreams

|Haiku Masters, NHK World{{Citation|last=(Japan Broadcasting Corporation)|first=NHK|title=Gallery - HAIKU MASTERS - TV - NHK WORLD - English|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/haiku_masters/gallery201801.html?week=3|access-date=17 January 2018}}

2017 (November)

|Spirit Guide

|DECASP Comedy Gazette{{Cite web|url=http://www.decasp.com/sullivan_11_2017.html|title=Decasp|last=Sullivan|first=Laurence|website=DECASP|access-date=17 January 2018}}

2017 (August)

|El Poderoso Empalador

|Pilcrow & Dagger{{Cite web|url=http://go.epublish4me.com/augustseptember_2017_sneak_peek/10094641|title=Pilcrow & Dagger August/September Issue|last=Rhoden|first=LeeAnn|website=Pilcrow & Dagger/Publish4Me|access-date=16 September 2017}}

2017 (June)Lady LuckThe Fiction Pool{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=Lady Luck|url=https://thefictionpool.com/2017/06/06/lady-luck-by-laurence-sullivan/|website=The Fiction Pool|publisher=The Fiction Pool|access-date=13 August 2017|date=6 June 2017}}
2017 (May)Impossible Goodbyes Foliate Oak Literary Magazine{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=Impossible Goodbyes|url=http://www.foliateoak.com/laurence-sullivan1.html|website=Foliate Oak Literary Magazine|publisher=Crack The Spine|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2017 (April)Waiting for BanquoCrack the Spine{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=Crack the Spine Literary Magazine - Issue 214|url=http://pub.lucidpress.com/crackthespine214/|website=Lucidpress|publisher=Crack The Spine|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2016 (December)From Father to SonPostcard Shorts{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=From Father to Son|url=http://www.postcardshorts.com/read-2543.html|website=Postcard Shorts|publisher=Postcard Shorts|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2016 (August)The FoxThe Literary Hatchet{{cite web|url=http://lizzieandrewborden.com/HatchetOnline/LiteraryHatchet/issues.htm|title=Literary Hatchet #15|last1=Koorey|first1=Stefani|website=The Literary Hatchet|publisher=PearTree Press|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2016 (July)Fireflies and Fire8th Haiku Submissions Collection

(Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum){{cite web|url=http://samidare.jp/basho/box/10th%20yamadera%20bash_%20memorial%20museum%20english%20haiku%20contest%20submissions%20collection%20pdf.pdf|title=Selected Haiku Submissions Collection|last1=Shinichi|first1=Kishi|website=10th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest|publisher=Yamagata City Culture Foundation|access-date=31 October 2018}}

2016 (June)Clouding the FutureWicked Young Writer Awards Anthology{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=18-25 Age Category Finalists Entries|url=http://www.wickedyoungwriterawards.com/downloads/Wicked_YWA_2016_anthology_18_25.pdf|website=Wicked Young Writer Awards|publisher=Wicked Young Writer Awards|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2016 (March)An Invaluable EssenceCorvus Review{{cite web|last1=Mercer|first1=Janine|title=Issue 4W|url=http://nebula.wsimg.com/fe0ee4e4a4978b7f905afa8a5abb0a89?AccessKeyId=3C22B84D674D5BA7A77D&disposition=0&alloworigin=1|website=Corvus Review|publisher=Corvus Review|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2015 (October)Attribute of the StrongInspired by Gandhi

(Sampad){{Cite book|title=Inspired by Gandhi|last=Cockitt|first=Anne|publisher=Sampad|year=2015|isbn=0956541666|location=London, United Kingdom}}

2015 (June)The PactThe List{{cite web|last1=Monks|first1=Rebecca|title=National Flash Fiction Day: Twitter users tell us their stories|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/71939-national-flash-fiction-day-twitter-users-tell-us-their-stories/|website=The List|publisher=The List|access-date=13 August 2017|date=24 June 2015}}
2015 (June)Teddy’s Little SecretFlash Flood{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=Teddy's Little Secret|url=http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/teddys-little-secret-by-laurence.html|website=FlashFlood Journal|publisher=FlashFlood|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2015 (May)The Strangest SuitorLondonist{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=London Short Fiction: The Strangest Suitor|url=http://londonist.com/2015/05/london-short-fiction-the-strangest-suitor|website=Londonist|publisher=Londonist|access-date=13 August 2017|date=30 May 2015}}
2015 (April)Worth a Thousand WordsFlash Flood{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=Worth a Thousand Words|url=http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/worth-thousand-words-by-laurence.html|website=FlashFlood Journal|publisher=FlashFlood|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2015 (February)Masks She WearsDrunk Monkeys{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=Masks She Wears|url=http://www.drunkmonkeys.us/fiction/2015/1/27/short-story-masks-she-wears|website=Drunk Monkeys|publisher=Drunk Monkeys|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2015 (February)

|Bristol's Own Oasis

|Dream of a Shadow{{Cite web|url=https://bristolstorytrail.wordpress.com/bristols-own-oasis/|title=Bristol Story Trail|last=Smith|first=Toby|date=16 February 2018|access-date=25 July 2018}}

2015 (January)Moth of GionKishboo Magazine
2015 (January)Accompaniment50Word Stories{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=Accompaniment|url=http://fiftywordstories.com/2015/01/26/laurence-sullivan-accompaniment/|website=50-Word Stories|publisher=50-Word Stories|access-date=13 August 2017|date=26 January 2015}}
2014 (December)The Red RoseStory Shack Magazine{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=The Red Rose|url=https://thestoryshack.com/flash-fiction/suspense/laurence-sullivan-the-red-rose/|website=The Story Shack|publisher=Story Shack|access-date=13 August 2017|date=18 December 2014}}
2014 (December)Mrs. OzekiThat Which We Do Not Understand

(Amelia’s Magazine/House)

2014 (November)In the Tea LeavesInspired by My Museum

(Sampad and the British Council){{Cite book|title=Inspired by My Museum|last=Cockitt|first=Anne|publisher=Sampad and the British Council|year=2014|isbn=095654164X|location=London, United Kingdom}}

2014 (November)Moth of GionAlfie Dog Fiction
2014 (November)The Price of LifeThick Jam
2014 (October)Worth a Thousand WordsThe Legendary{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Laurence|title=Worth A Thousand Words|url=http://www.downdirtyword.com/authors/laurencesullivan.html|website=The Legendary|publisher=The Legendary|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2014 (July)JusticeOpen Pen
2014 (June)Flickering Dawn and The Arranged MarriageJust100Words
2014 (April)Moth of GionThe Menteur{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/thementeur/docs/the_menteur_-_issue_3_-_web|title=The Menteur: Spring Issue 2014|last1=Naief|first1=Kadidja|website=ISSUU|publisher=The Menteur|access-date=13 August 2017}}
2014 (March)Chains, Her Watchers, Slumber, Teddy’s Little Secret, Castaway and The Sssilent KillerDarker Times Collection: Volume Two

(Darker Times Fiction)

2013 (March)The Gift, Rose and Tokyo DreamsDarker Times Collection: Volume One

(Darker Times Fiction){{cite web|title=Winners, Runners Up and Honourable Mentions|url=http://www.darkertimes.co.uk/winners.aspx|website=Darker Times|publisher=Darker Times Fiction|access-date=13 August 2017}}

Awards

  • Fish Publishing: Lockdown Prize 2020 (Shortlisted){{Cite web |last=Clem |first=Jula |date=2020-07-02 |title=Lockdown - Best Haiku/Senryu |url=https://www.fishpublishing.com/2020/07/02/haiku-senryu-23-best/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Fish Publishing |language=en-GB}}
  • 73rd Basho Memorial Haiku Competition (Honourable Mention){{Cite web|title=73rd Basho Memorial Haiku Competition|url=http://www.basho-bp.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/eigo.pdf}}
  • Wicked Young Writer Awards: Gregory Maguire Award 2016 (Runner-up/Highly Commended){{cite web|last1=Owen|first1=Hannah|title=Gregory Maguire Award 2016|url=http://www.wickedyoungwriterawards.com/downloads/Wicked_YWA_2016_anthology_18_25.pdf|website=Wicked Young Writer Awards|publisher=Artlinks|access-date=13 August 2017|ref=4}}
  • Writers' Centre Norwich Award (Shortlisted){{cite web|last1=Stimson|first1=Laura|title=Writers' Centre Norwich Award 2014|url=http://www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk/Blog-all/?wpage=8|website=Writers' Centre Norwich|publisher=Writers' Centre Norwich|access-date=13 August 2017|ref=5}}
  • Reedsy First Chapter Award (Shortlisted){{cite web|last1=Barros|first1=Simon|title=Reedsy First Chapter Award: shortlist announced - Blogs|url=https://app.hiive.co.uk/knowledge/blogs/reedsy-first-chapter-award-shortlist-announced/1177/|website=Hiive|publisher=Hiive|access-date=13 August 2017|ref=6}}
  • Dante Rossetti Award 2015 (Finalist){{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Kiffer|title=Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction 2015|url=https://www.chantireviews.com/2015/12/15/the-dante-rossetti-awards-finalist-official-listing-for-2015/|website=Chanticleer Reviews|publisher=Chanticleer Book Reviews|access-date=13 August 2017|ref=7|date=15 December 2015}}

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