Nicola Monaghan won a Betty Trask Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the Waverton Good Read for her first novel, The Killing Jar. Her latest book is The Troll: The Boy with the Sliver of Ice in his Heart and is the first in a trilogy. She also wrote The Night Lingers and other stories, Starfishing and The Okinawa Dragon and has been published widely in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She writes for screen too and is working on her first feature. She teaches Creative Writing at De Montfort University, as well as online at Udemy.com
This is the anthology of writing by students of the National Academy of Writing. On page 19 you'll find my short story, Behind the Geisha's Eyes. I have a second short story, Cold Feet on page 111 and a life-writing piece, Nashville Shoeshine on page 193.