Ormeshadow

Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Novella Award Acclaimed author Priya Sharma transports readers back in time with Ormeshadow, a coming-of-age story as dark and rich as good soil. Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder whether myths and legends are real enough to answer for a history of sin. Uprooted from Bath by his father's failures, Gideon Belman finds himself stranded on Ormeshadow farm, an ancient place of chalk and ash and shadow.

The land crests the Orme, a buried, sleeping dragon that dreams resentment, jealousy, estrangement, death. Or so the folklore says. Growing up in a house that hates him, Gideon finds his only comforts in the land.

Gideon will live or die by the Orme, as all his family has.

SHARMA's fiction has appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor. com. Shes been anthologised in several of Ellen Datlows Best Horror of the Year series, Paula Gurans Years Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series, Jonathan Strahans The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, Steve Haynes Best British Fantasy 2014, and Johnny Mains Best British Horror 2015. Shes also been on many Locus Recommended Reading Lists.

"Fabulous Beasts" was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. She is a Grand Judge for the Aeon Award, an annual writing competition run by Albedo One, Irelands longest-running and foremost magazine of the Fantastic. A collection of some of Priyas work, All the Fabulous Beasts, was released in 2018 from Undertow Publications.