Aliya Whiteley

Aliya Whiteley (born 1974) is a British novelist, short story writer and poet.

Biography

Aliya Whiteley was born in Barnstaple, North Devon, in 1974 and grew up in the seaside town of Ilfracombe which formed the inspiration for many of her stories and novels. She was educated at Ilfracombe College and gained a 2:1 BA (Hons) degree in Theatre, Film and Television Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1995. In 2011 she was awarded an MSc in Library and Information Management by the University of Northumbria; her dissertation involved conducting a case study into the research techniques of modern novelists. She currently lives in West Sussex.

Bibliography

Novels

Light Reading Pan Macmillan^[1] (UK paperback) April 2009 ISBN 978-0230706798

Light Reading Macmillan New Writing (UK hardback)Feb 2008 ISBN 978-0230700628

Three Things About Me Macmillan New Writing (UK hardback) April 2006 ISBN 978-0230001367

Novellas

The Beauty Unsung Stories September 2014 ISBN 978-1907389252

Mean Mode Median Bluechrome Publishing November 2004 ISBN 978-1904781394

Short Stories

Whiteley's short story collection Witchcraft in the Harem was published in April 2013 by Manchester-based Dog Horn Publishing.^[2]

Whiteley’s short story Green River was awarded second place in the 2012 British Fantasy Society's Short Story Competition.^[3]

Sieve was published in The Guardian in 2004^[4]

Jelly Park won the Drabblecast 2007People's Choice Award for best short story.

Dozens more have been published in magazines and anthologies worldwide, including:

• Sebastian Bugs ^[5] and 1926 in Brazilian Football^[6] in Word Riot
• 'Penelope Napolitano and the Butterflies^[7] in Strange Horizons
• Flushed^[8] in 3:AM Magazine
• Wingspan^[9] in The Future Fire

Reviews

Light reading

Review by Susanna Yager in The Daily Telegraph^[10]

Review by Scott Pack (Me and My Big Mouth and The Friday Project)^[11]

`A weird page turner with a surprising ending' – Now Magazine

`This dark detective story is full of mystery and intrigue with a truly shocking twist.' – My Weekly^[12]

'After a good many books which seem to be recycling...Aliya Whiteley's Light Reading is refreshingly different.' – Sunday Telegraph

Three Things About Me

Review by Laura Hird^[13]

Review by Kirkus^[14]

Review by Grumpy Old Bookman^[15]

Mean Mode Median

Review by Laura Hird:^[16]

A review of the short story Geoffrey Says was published in The Boston Globe as part of the anthology, 'The Adventure of the Missing Detective' (Carroll & Graf 2004) ^[17]

Penelope Napolitano and the Butterflies review in Locus^[18] and Tangent Online^[19]

References

External links

• Laura Hird
• Pan Macmillan
• Macmillan New Writing
• Aliya Whiteley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The story behind The Beauty - Essay by Aliya Whiteley at Upcoming4.me