James Smart is a working class writer from the North of England and is a Creative Writing MFA student at the University of East Anglia. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmertrain, Penn Review, Bangor Literary Journal, After the Pause, Adda Stories, Memoir Mixtapes and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, longlisted for the Dorset Fiction Award and the Smokelong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction prize, and is working on a novel. He tweets @notjamessmart.