David Frankel is a British writer and artist. He is the author of Forgetting is How We Survive (2023), a collection of short stories published by Salt and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2024. His stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies and have been recognised by competitions such as the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award.
David Frankel was born in Salford and spent his youth on the western outskirts of Manchester. He trained as a sculptor and supported his artistic work by building opera sets, working in a bronze foundry and teaching. "Writing was always in the background," he has said. "But a few years ago, it took over." He later completed an MA in creative writing at the University of Chichester, where he won the Kate Betts Memorial Prize.
His fiction straddles realism and the uncanny. Forgetting Is How We Survive contains stories in which everyday events take on a darker meaning. A plane crashes. A boy drowns. A woman is haunted by childhood memories. "In David Frankel's remarkable stories," writes Ben Tufnell, "the everyday is at once strange and threatening. Characters often face quiet turning points where loss or desire changes the course of their lives.
Frankel's short fiction has won or been shortlisted in many competitions, including the Bridport Prize, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award and the Bath Short Story Prize. In 2021, Nightjar Press published his story "Return" as a limited-edition chapbook. His work also includes poetry and very short fiction, collected in The Hours of Our Lady, published by Salò Press.
David Frankel writes nonfiction books that reflect his visual practice, often exploring memory and the environment. His current project, The Remembered Landscape, supported by Arts Council England, explores the relationship between memory and place.
As an artist, he has exhibited throughout the UK and has received awards from the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Manchester Academy of Fine Art.
Photo credit: www.davidfrankel.co.uk
David Frankel was born in Salford and spent his youth on the western outskirts of Manchester. He trained as a sculptor and supported his artistic work by building opera sets, working in a bronze foundry and teaching. "Writing was always in the background," he has said. "But a few years ago, it took over." He later completed an MA in creative writing at the University of Chichester, where he won the Kate Betts Memorial Prize.
His fiction straddles realism and the uncanny. Forgetting Is How We Survive contains stories in which everyday events take on a darker meaning. A plane crashes. A boy drowns. A woman is haunted by childhood memories. "In David Frankel's remarkable stories," writes Ben Tufnell, "the everyday is at once strange and threatening. Characters often face quiet turning points where loss or desire changes the course of their lives.
Frankel's short fiction has won or been shortlisted in many competitions, including the Bridport Prize, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award and the Bath Short Story Prize. In 2021, Nightjar Press published his story "Return" as a limited-edition chapbook. His work also includes poetry and very short fiction, collected in The Hours of Our Lady, published by Salò Press.
David Frankel writes nonfiction books that reflect his visual practice, often exploring memory and the environment. His current project, The Remembered Landscape, supported by Arts Council England, explores the relationship between memory and place.
As an artist, he has exhibited throughout the UK and has received awards from the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Manchester Academy of Fine Art.
Photo credit: www.davidfrankel.co.uk
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