Laura Theis is an award-winning musician and writer.
She grew up in a place in Germany where each street
bears the name of a mythical creature or fairy tale character.
Her short stories, songs, radio plays, and poetry
have been broadcast and published in the UK, Germany, and the U.S.
Her new work appears or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons,
The London Reader, Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast,
About Place Journal, Rise Up Review, Enchanted Conversations, Briars Lit
and in print anthologies from Live Canon, Curtis Bausse, Allitera, and Three Drops Press.
Laura has gained a Distinction in the Mst Creative Writing
at Oxford University (Keble College) as well as an MA in Theatre Studies,
German and American Literature from LMU Munich.
She has been awarded the 2017 AM Heath Prize, the 2018 Hammond House International Literary Award for Poetry, and the 2018 Short Story Prize by Curtis Bausse.
Her work has been shortlisted for the 2018 Yeovil Prize for Poetry, the 2018 Live Canon International Poetry Award, as well as the 2018 Frome Festival Short Story Competition.
She grew up in a place in Germany where each street
bears the name of a mythical creature or fairy tale character.
Her short stories, songs, radio plays, and poetry
have been broadcast and published in the UK, Germany, and the U.S.
Her new work appears or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons,
The London Reader, Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast,
About Place Journal, Rise Up Review, Enchanted Conversations, Briars Lit
and in print anthologies from Live Canon, Curtis Bausse, Allitera, and Three Drops Press.
Laura has gained a Distinction in the Mst Creative Writing
at Oxford University (Keble College) as well as an MA in Theatre Studies,
German and American Literature from LMU Munich.
She has been awarded the 2017 AM Heath Prize, the 2018 Hammond House International Literary Award for Poetry, and the 2018 Short Story Prize by Curtis Bausse.
Her work has been shortlisted for the 2018 Yeovil Prize for Poetry, the 2018 Live Canon International Poetry Award, as well as the 2018 Frome Festival Short Story Competition.
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(a little selection of some of Laura's favourite things:
tiny bookshops, enchanted forests, dusk, the sea, dog walks, fairy tale cottages, and being in front of microphones...)
tiny bookshops, enchanted forests, dusk, the sea, dog walks, fairy tale cottages, and being in front of microphones...)
