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Literary criticisms, book reviews, academic papers, short fiction by Boo Sujiwaro
Words on the page mean I am afraid / A conversation with my therapist (Reflex Fiction)
Longlisted in the Summer 2022 Reflex Flash Fiction Competition, ‘Words on the page mean I am afraid / A conversation with my therapist’ was published by Reflex Fiction on 13 August.
Komorebi (木漏れ日): Short Fiction
Naoki has heard that Arne’s mother is Japanese but he still can’t bring himself to believe it. Under the plum tree at the school gate, with sunlight making dappled patterns on his skin, Arne greets him with a smile. Light catches in his hair, turning it a colour that Naoki has only ever seen on snow and jasmine.
Flash Fiction: Yesterday’s Tomorrow (published by Reflex Press)
On 17 July 2020, ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrow’, the prologue to my YA project, THREAT LEVEL: NAOKI, was published by Reflex Press as flash fiction.
Following its publication, ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrow’ was added to the syllabus for the Writingscapes module as preparatory reading for third year English students at Keele University. The module is taught by senior lecturer Ceri Morgan who specialises in geopoetics, place-writing and literary geographies in Quebec literature.