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Carole Burns, a freelance reviewer for the Washington Post, was the winner of Ploughshares’ John C. Zacharis First Book Award in 2015 for her story collection, The Missing Woman.

Her debut novel, The Same Country, shortlisted in The Masters Review Novel Excerpt Prize, was published by the London-based Legend Press in autumn 2023.

An American ex-pat now living in Wales, Carole worked as a journalist, including for washingtonpost.com and The New York Times, for some 15 years before moving to the UK, where she is now an Associate Professor in English teaching Creative Writing at the University of Southampton.

Her short fiction has been longlisted in the BBC’s National Short Story Award and published in Mslexia.

Her first book, Off the Page: Write ...more

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	Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything In Between by Carole Burns (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marie Arana (Introduction) 3.45 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Same Country 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Missing Woman and Other Stories 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secondary character and other stories by Barrie Llewelyn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay Beechey (Contributor), Susmita Bhattacharya (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Carole Burns liked Siobhan Reads Sometimes's review of The Same Country: "“How would Joe have turned out? I sometimes wondered. When I visited Florence a few years ago. I visited the Galleria dell’Accademia to see Michaelangelo’s David, but it was a series of half-finished sculptures nearby that captured my attention - hal" Read more of this review »
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Carole Burns liked Fran Hill's review of The Same Country: "I so enjoyed this and it kept calling to me whenever I put it down! The central question - 'What actually happened that night?' - acts as a page-turner and I loved the dual narrative as this kept up the pace and intrigue. The main character is consta" Read more of this review »
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