E L Faull

E L Faull grew up in a Quaker family in North Cornwall. She worked as a waitress, chef, and bookseller before spending twenty years in urban regeneration in Liverpool and Manchester. She has an MA in Creative Writing and writes literary fiction. She lives in Exeter with her husband, two teenagers, and Pan, a Bengal cat.

News>August 2026 '45 Providence Square', has gone from the longlist, to the shortlist in the Frazzled Lit short story competition, judged by Booker-longlisted Irish novelist and EU Prize for fiction, Donal Ryan.
The next step is to reach the final six!
Fingers crossed.
August 2026 'No One Told Me Mice Had Teeth' Shortlist Frazzled Lit short story competition.

July 2026 Two stories 'Marden' and 'Long Cripple' were longlisted for the 2026 Frome Short Story Competition, judged by Claire Fuller, whose novel Unsettled Ground won the 2021 Costa Novel Award.July 2026'The House That Jack Built' reached the second round of the 2026 Bridport Prize, placing in the top 7% of entries, judged by Manuel Muñoz, a MacArthur Fellow and three-time O. Henry Award winner.

May 2026 'Spider' was shortlisted for the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition.

May 2026 'Toil and Trouble' and 'The Last Song of Sylvie Costa' have both been selected as finalists in the Next Generation Short Story Awards.

Read The Last Song of Sylvie Costa.

E L Faull has twice been a finalist in the New Generation short story awards.

'All the Ends of the Earth'
A Novel
Set in rural England against the fractured summer of 1981, this is an atmospheric coming-of-age novel told through the voice of fourteen-year-old Kit Harper.

Urban Parables: Stories from a Winter CityTwelve characters who never meet are linked by the city they inhabit and by the consequences of what they choose, give away, or take. Contemporary parables of mercy, judgement, kindness and betrayal.

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E L Faull

'All the Ends of the Earth' A Novel Set in rural England against the fractured summer of 1981, this is an atmospheric coming-of-age novel told through the voice of fourteen-year-old Kit Harper.

Urban Parables: Stories from a Winter CityTwelve characters who never meet are linked by the city they inhabit and by the consequences of what they choose, give away, or take. Contemporary parables of mercy, judgement, kindness and betrayal.

'All the Ends of the Earth'
A Novel
Set in rural England against the fractured summer of 1981, this is an atmospheric coming-of-age novel told through the voice of fourteen-year-old Kit Harper.