Helen Chau Bradley is a writer and musician living in Tio'tia:ke / Montreal. They are the author of Automatic Object Lessons (House House Press, 2020). Their stories and essays have appeared in carte blanche, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy Magazine, Maisonneuve Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Helen Chau Bradley's collection Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press) was recently named a finalist for the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for short stories. Read on to see why Helen says "writing a short story often feels like solving a puzzle" and catch an ... Read more
May is Short Story Month, and this year All Lit Up celebrates this under-appreciated form with Short and Sweet, a little series featuring 12 short story collections and their authors, who share brief thoughts on the short form.
Fans of Sour Heart and Barrelling Forward will love this brilliant short story collection in Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press) by Helen Chau Bradley. These stories are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the ... Read more
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Bonus: take 15% off our #unwrapindie book ... Read more
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