Julia Armfield
Julia Armfield is a fiction writer from London, author of the story collection salt slow. Her work has been published in Lighthouse, analog magazine, Neon and The
Best British Short Stories 2019. She was commended in the 2017 Moth Short Story Prize, longlisted for the 2018 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award and was the winner of the 2018 White Review Short Story Prize.
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Julia Armfield on Granta.com
Fiction | The Online Edition
Scream Queen
Julia Armfield
‘She is well-behaved, as icons go, she toes the party line.’
Short fiction by the author of Our Wives Under the Sea.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 1963: The Group
Julia Armfield
‘Cigarettes, lorgnons, eggs benedict, cocktails mixed with maple syrup, long spills down Lanvin suits.’ Julia Armfield on why Mary McCarthy’s The Group is the best book of 1963.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Julia Armfield | First Sentence
Julia Armfield
‘A first line is a threat, I think.’ Julia Armfield on the first sentence of her story ‘Longshore Drift’.
Fiction | Issue 148
Longshore Drift
Julia Armfield
‘She has never been very keen on the thought of herself as other people see her.’
