Fantasy inspired by forgotten folklore and myths, where ordinary lives collide with the impossible.
Award
Recognised for speculative fiction rooted in myth, memory and the impossible.
Featured Project
A literary fantasy in development, set around a shop where small objects carry impossible histories and ordinary lives brush against forgotten myths.
Project Notes
Current work in progress.
Folklore, memory and impossible objects.
A shop where small miracles are catalogued, misplaced and found again.
About David
David Cuen is a British-Mexican writer of fantasy inspired by folklore, myth and the strange pressure points where everyday life meets the impossible. His work is drawn to forgotten stories, inherited objects, marginal histories and the quiet miracles people carry without naming them.
To this day, I’m still baffled when someone mutters that “listening to an audiobook” is not reading. Do a little search on Google or your favourite social platform and the debate will come up. I started listening to audiobooks a few years ago, maybe it was during the pandemic, I can’t really remember, as a…
Last year, I was selected to enrol in the Writing Fantasy course at Curtis Brown Creative after submitting the opening of a new novel filled with fantasy and Mesoamerican magical realism. For the purpose of this post, we’ll call it SLM. My course tutor was Lucy Holland, pen name of Lucy Hounsom, author of Sistersong…
Writing is an accumulation of effort, not a deadline reached. Just when you think you’re hitting a milestone, you encounter a new one. The job is never done. It’s constantly evolving. So the question is: when is a writer happy? A writer is happy along the way. And suffering along the way. It lives in…
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