Susan Bennett's Blog

To Hull & Back Short Story Competition 2023

 When You Are Dog has been shortlisted and will appear in the 2023 anthology.  Thanks to Christopher Fielden and the judges for their generously gifted time and effort.

Albury City Short Story Awards 2023

This year's shortlist includes my story, When You Are Dog.  Thanks to Albury City for running this competition; Write Around The Murray Festival Director, Ann-maree Ellis, is always such a pleasure to deal with.

The Stoner Cow Has Landed

 

Songbook: OUT NOW!

Available from Amazon

US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, JP, BR, CA, MX, AU, IN

Apple, Barnes & Noble, Vivlio

and wherever weird books involving stoner cows are sold.

Coming Soon: Songbook

 

Reimagining songs by U2, Aerosmith, Chris Isaak, Crowded House, The Beatles, Shay Healy, Divinyls, Kylie Minogue, Paul Kelly, The Tempations and Shangri-Las; reimagining music by Debussy, Arthur de Lulli, Schumann, Beethoven, Steve Rosenberg, The Piano Boys and Dvořák.

Denial

When justice fails, there can only be revenge.  Download my short story, Denial, via Draft2Digital or on Google Play.

The Devil's Food

In the Scottish Highlands, a lonely widower and his grandson bond with a wild eagle.  Download my short story The Devil's Food or read it on Google Play tumblr and Medium.  Listen to me reading the Devil's Food on Soundcloud or YouTube.

The Whack Club

My novel, The Whack Club, is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other retailers.


Revenge is a dish best served cold. But some like it hot.

Isabella Albrici's epiphany begins when her mobster husband, Domenic, frames Isabella and her best friend, Teresa Benedetti, for his diamond smuggling operation. Prime targets for the prison’s resident psychopath, Isabella and Teresa will be lucky to survive jail, even luckier to survive if they get out – thanks to Domenic, ‘the family’ thinks Isabella is an FBI informant. The big house ain't no fun house, but for Isabella and Teresa, it’s the safest house there is, until the evidence keeping them there suddenly goes missing.

Welcome to the Whack Club. Four extraordinary women, one simple goal: to take down the mafia men who betrayed them. What could go wrong?

A rollicking tale of friendship, adventure and revenge.

Clair de Lune

Old man winter of nineteen forty-three was a geezer too miserly to pass, clinging to bitter life only to deny his poor relatives the joy of inheritance. With their lofty cathedral ceilings and wooden floors, the classrooms and dormitories of Saint Bartholomew’s were bitterly cold and seemed to grow more so with each winter. Perhaps we could be forgiven for thinking so in our final year, with liberation so close.

Available from Amazon UK.  If Amazon UK doesn't ship to your destination, the anthology can be purchased directly from Fish on enquiry.  It also seems to be available free on Kindle Unlimited. 

Mister Switzerland

If he were a shirt, he would have to be washed separately. His label would declare him a delicate garment to be protected from other shirts, unable to withstand the rough and tumble of the washing machine. He would require hand washing in tepid water, flat shaded drying and a cool iron, though it wouldn’t get the wrinkles out.
Mister Switzerland appears in
The Moth Magazine Issue 31 (Winter 2017)

and
The Hull and Back Short Story Anthology 2019

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

Harper's Magazine: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate