About

Garry Craig Powell was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read History, Archaeology and Anthropology, and at Durham University, where he did an MA in Applied Linguistics. He has an MFA in Creative Writing (major: fiction) from the University of Arizona.
He taught English, in Spain, Poland, and Portugal, where he started and ran his own language school, and in the UAE, which became the setting for his linked collection of stories, Stoning the Devil (Skylight Press, 2012). This was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award in 2013, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in the same year.
From 2004 until 2017 Powell taught Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. His stories appeared in many magazines, such as McSweeney’s, Nimrod, New Orleans Review, and Queen’s Quarterly (Canada), and in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (ed. Jeffery Deaver). He received fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council, the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, and the Arvon Foundation in the UK. 
Since 2017 Garry Craig Powell has been living in northern Portugal.
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In times like these, it's hard not to write satire.” Juvenal (d. 130 AD)​
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Garry Craig Powell`s debut novel, Our Parent Who Art in Heaven, ​was published by Flame Books on April 15, 2022. 

‘In Our Parent Who Art in Heaven, Powell has penned what may be the anti-woke campus novel of our times, a rollicking satire equal to the wittiest and most keenly observed of Tom Sharpe and Evelyn Waugh.‘ David Joiner, author of Lotusland and Kanazawa

 

Welshman Huw Lloyd Jones’ life seems perfect: he teaches Creative Writing at a charming college in the American South, and is happy with Miranda, his beautiful wife. But then he discovers that his despotic boss, Frida Shamburger, has it in for him, and Miranda’s love is more tenuous than he supposed. Huw must fight to save his job and marriage. But can a middle-aged white man survive in the woke jungle of academia? And with a manipulative psychiatrist and a women’s empowerment guru encouraging Miranda to be more independent, can the couple’s love prevail?

Publisher: Flame Books, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Publisher's website: www.flamebooks.net
Genre: Literary fiction/satire
Length: 286 pages
Binding: paperback, e-book, audio book
Price: £10.99 (paperback), £3.25 (e-book), audio book unpriced as yet
ISBN: 978-7399164-0-4 (pb) 978-7399164-1-1 (e-book) 978-7399164-2-8 (audio)

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Prizes and Nominations

Stoning the Devil (Skylight Press, 2012)
Longlist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, 2013
Longlist for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, 2013
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Pushcart Prize nomination for "The Jinni Crouching Beside Her", 2011​

Katherine Anne Porter Prize semi-finalist for "A Woman's Weapon," 2007

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