about me

Kit Habianic is a London-based freelance.

She has placed short stories in four anthologies and literary magazines. Her debut novel Bwci-bo (not yet uploaded) is a love story set in industrial South Wales against the backdrop of the 1984/5 Miners Strike. In November, Bwci-bo was one of six full manuscripts shortlisted in the 2008 Daily Mail/Transworld First Novel Competition. The rewrite continues. Email: kithabianic at aol dot com

Obligatory shameless book plug.....

It's here! Out at last - the debut anthology of top-rated short stories from the Arts Council-funded You Write On website in 2006-2008. My short story, Cardiff Dead, is in it. Funds raised will support good causes including Sight Savers.

Great Short Stories by YouWriteOn.com Writers. ISBN: 978-1-84923-004-9.

favourite books

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Midaq Alley - Neguib Mahfouz
Ancient Evenings - Norman Mailer
Body of Glass - Marge Piercy
God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
In The Eye of the Sun - Ahdaf Soueif

All-time favourite shorts

Gode's Story - AS Byatt
The Five Forty-Eight - John Cheever
The Knife Thrower - Steven Millhauser
Tell Me Yes Or No - Alice Munro
Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
A Way To Catch The Dust - Jacob Ross

Favourite poets

Michael Rosen, Thomas Hardy, Mahmoud Darwish

my websites