Something Happened by Alice Kent

Alice Kent’s (Something Happened) first short story ‘Len’s Whole Life’ was selected for the Words and Women anthology. She was longlisted for the Grazia Bailey’s Fiction First Chapter Award. Alice wrote the foreword for the pamphlet Walking Norwich: The Real and Imagined City, which featured in The Guardian and on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book. She co-edited the 2021 pamphlet Dialogues, which includes Vahni Capildeo on Julian of Norwich and Valur Gunnarsson on W.G. (Max) Sebald. Alice studied Politics at the University of Birmingham and has a Masters in European Journalism having studied in Aarhus and Utrecht. She works at the social innovation foundation, Nesta, and lives in Norwich with her partner, two kids and cat, Mishka.

Alice's work appears in Issue 9 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.