GALLEY BEGGAR PRESS SHORT STORY PRIZE 2023/24

RUBY OPALKA is a writer based in Manchester, UK, where they completed an MA in Creative Writing in 2023. They are currently working on their debut short story collection, which explores queer intimacies, the strangeness and pleasures of bodies and the meeting point of people and geology. Their work can also be read in The Manchester Anthology 2023.

Read ruby’s 2023/24 GBP Short Story Prize nominated story, ‘spume of the mouth’, here.

read ruby’s Q&A with us here.