“I am delighted to receive the inaugural Philip Hoare prize. Every endorsement of a writer’s work is valued, and they really don’t come much better than this – so a huge thank you to the readers and judges for selecting ‘Hopeful Glimmer’. Flash non-fiction, though pocket sized, can carry enormous ideas and can materialise as many different things: memoir, lyric essay, review, polemic, thought piece, biography, anecdote, travelogue or reportage, etc. It’s an exciting form with huge potential, and it’s a curious thing that we can only define it by what it’s not.”

Hopeful Glimmer

A flash of Jaffa amongst the dripping greenery, he grabbed my eye. A bald man draped in what looked like an orange curtain, thumbing a lift …

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