Patience Mackarness lives and writes partly in a cottage in Brittany, partly in an elderly VW camper van. She writes mostly flash fiction, and her work has been published online by Every Day Fiction, The Pygmy Giant, Bandit Fiction and Peacock Journal. She has taught English as a foreign language in Portugal, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UK.

Patience’s story, A Vampire at Noon, will be performed at Noon at Edinburgh and London on 21st December 2018 and published in the Noon anthology on 21st March 2019

Another story, Roots, will be performed at Solstice Shorts 2020 on 21st December 2020 at 8pm and has been published in the Tymes goe by Turnes anthology

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