Nathaniel Spain

Writer and designer in Tyne & Wear, UK

Writing

Awards

Third Prize for ‘Iterate’, BFS Short Story Competition, 2025
The Programme Prize for Prose, Lancaster University, 2015
The Part I Prize (Creative Writing), Lancaster University, 2013

Publications

Meadow Seep, short fiction, The Ghastling, 2025

What My Father Left Behind in Broken Ground, short fiction, Uncertain Stories, 2025

Golgotha, narrative game, self-published, in development

White Horse, flash fiction, Hare’s Paw, 2024

Woodwake in Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes, poetry, Sidekick Books, 2024

Unfurl: Portrait of another world, pamphlet, co-authored with Kym Deyn and Finlay Worrallo, The Braag, 2023

Thronemaker, short fiction, Carmina Magazine, 2023

A Baptism, short fiction, Gastropoda, 2023

Mulch, flash fiction, Carmen et Error, 2021

Easter Monday, 1360, short fiction, Provenance Journal, 2021

Fragments, pamphlet, self-published, 2021

Spirelark, short fiction, The Fiction Pool, 2020

Calling Back to the Wild: Postmodernity and the Cultural History of Wilderness, academic thesis, Durham University, 2017