Alex Reece Abbott

Alex is a Penguin Random House WriteNow finalist and winner in the Irish Novel Fair, Northern Crime, Arvon, Crediton and HG Wells prizes, Alex’s short fiction is a finalist in, among others, the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Prize, Maria Edgeworth, Tillie Olsen, Bridport and Lorian Hemingway prizes. She writes across genres and forms. Alex was a runner up in The Casket of Fictional Delights Flash Fiction competition 2017.

Alex tweets @AlexReeceAbbott

  • Soiled

    The devil’s children live behind big black gates and high stone walls girdled with barbed wire. Seven days a week they work, no clocks, silence enforced. Isolated from the world, windows barred with steel, kept separate from each other to prevent contagion. Behind the heavy, brown door – always locked – it’s airless and hotter…