John Michael Flynn

Fiction Writer

Watford, HRT
United Kingdom
Hertfordshire GB

Author's Bio

John Michael Flynn, who also publishes as Basil Rosa, as well as John Flynn, has published one collection of essays, How The Quiet Breathes, (New Meridian Arts, www.newmeridianarts.com, 2020), along with four collections of short stories, Vintage Vinyl Playlist (Fomite, www.fomitepress.com 2023), Off To The Next Wherever (Fomite, 2016), Dreaming Rodin (Publerati, www.publerati.com 2013), Something Grand (Be Movie Press, 2003), and a number of poetry collections, some of which include Restless Vanishings (Leaf Garden Press, www.Leafgardenpress.blogspot.com 2017), Keepers Meet Questing Eyes (Leaf Garden Press, 2015), States And Items (Leaf Garden Press, 2013), Additions To Our Essential Confusion (Kattywompus Press, www.kattywompuspress.com 2013), Wave And Metronome (Pudding House, 2010), Westbound Frieght (Pudding House, 2006), A Dozen Lemons In Autotroplis (Pudding House, 2005), Blackbird Once Wild Now Tame / Mierla Domesticita (Pure Heart/ Main Street Rag Press 2003), and Moments Between Cities (Edwin Mellen Press, 1997). 

 

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Vintage Vinyl Playlist (Fomite, 2023)
Prizes won: 

 

 

 * Writer In Residence, Carl Sandburg Home Connemara, US National Park Service, 2017.

 * Poetry Society Of Virginia, 2009.

 * Erika Mumford Prize New England Poetry Club, 1998.

 * Worcester County Poetry Association Prize,  1998.

 * Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Writers And Readers Award, 1998.

 * H.G. Roberts Foundation Short Fiction Award Kansas State University, 1990.

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
Romanian, Russian
Born in: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Jul 25, 2023