The Unreliable Nature Writer is the eagerly-awaited debut collection of exhilarating, unsettling and dreamy short stories from Claire Carroll.
Carroll portrays an unsettlingly hot world of people facing the strain of intimate and global anxieties – trying to live alongside new technologies and failing environments. Delightful to read and unsettling to imagine, these are haunting stories about love, loss and strangely-exposing housing applications.
Claire Carroll lives in Somerset and writes about desire, nature and technology. Her short stories and poetry have been published by journals including Gutter Magazine, perverse, Lunate Journal, The Oxonian Review, and Short Fiction Journal, as well as shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize.
Interview: with Claire Carroll in Lunate
Read: My Brain is Boiling with Ideas, The White Review
Prompt: Ground yourself in the mundane like the school run. Now add in something unfamiliar or unsettling. Rework leaving clues that your narrator might not be seeing this as they really are.