Amanda Saint

Amanda Saint is the author of two novels, As If I Were A River (2016) and Remember Tomorrow (2019), and a novella-in-flash, Pressure Drop (2024 ). She’s now working on her third novel, an almost complete flash fiction collection and writes The Mindful Writer.

Her stories have been widely published; long/short listed in the Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition, Fish Flash Fiction Prize, Ink Tears Short Story Prize, Cranked Anvil Short Story Competition, Flash 500 and V300; nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023; and won the Editor’s Choice Prize at 101 Words.

In 2012, Amanda founded Retreat West where she teaches writing courses and workshops and hosts a friendly and supportive community; and in 2022 she launched the WestWord literary journal, publishing great flash fictions and short stories.

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