On The Bodies of Strangers... Coming Soon!
Hannah Stevens
I am so happy to let you know that my short story collection ON THE BODIES OF STRANGERS will be published on 7th July 2026.
The book is a collection of short stories linked by the theme of tattoos, exploring marked lives and marked flesh. In 2022 it was shortlisted for the W&A Working Class Writers' Prize.
These are stories about the chaos of ordinary lives, about people who are flawed, complicated, but always deeply human. From domestic abuse to unexpected friendship, mixing horror and hope, intimacies and lies, ON THE BODIES OF STRANGERS explores the many ways we mark each other and ourselves as we deal with the complexities of human behaviour.
Endorsements for the book are forthcoming from Gosia Buzzanca, author of There She Goes, My Beautiful World, Jonathan Taylor, author of Scablands and Other Stories, Entertaining Strangers and Take Me Home. As well as Dan Powell, author of Looking Out of Broken Windows and Victoria MacKenzie, author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain.