A Few Questions with Dewi Hargreaves
Dewi Hargreaves is a featured author in the upcoming anthology Once Upon Another Time: Fresh Tales from the Far Side of Fantasy , an international publication available for free from Amazon on May 23, 2022. Story in the Anthology: Redcap A Few Questions What are some authors/books/events that have been influential to your work? So. Many. I read a lot of Bernard Cornwell growing up, though I don’t read his stuff now. Doing creative writing at university was pretty much fundamental to establishing who I am today. And Neil Gaiman’s short story Troll Bridge . It floored me the first time I read it, and from then on, I’ve been hooked on short fiction. How do you see writing fitting in (or not) within the current world of books? My first book was a fantasy short story collection, around 40,000 words long, in which all the stories took place in the same world and in chronological order. Too cohesive to be a real short story collection, but not quite a novel or a novella, either. I knew no tra