Parables, Fables, Nightmares is the debut short story collection by UEA alumnus Malachi McIntosh and is published by The Emma Press this week. Malachi was born and lives in Birmingham, England, but spent his childhood in the United States. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford and the Barbara Pym Tutorial Fellow in English at St. Hilda’s College. He was until recently the editor of Wasafiri Magazine. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Caribbean Review of Books, the Guardian, the Independent, and Comma Press’s Book of Birmingham, and have been commissioned by the National Trust and Lincoln University. His non-fiction book, A Revolutionary Consciousness: Black Britain, Black Power, and the Caribbean Artists Movement, won a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn award, was shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award, and will be published by Faber in 2025
