Iqbal HussainIqbal Hussain is a writer from Blackburn, Lancashire and he lives in London. His work appears in various anthologies and on websites including The Willowherb Review, The Hopper and caughtbytheriver. He is a recipient of the inaugural London Wrters' Awards 2018 and he won Gold in the Creative Future Writers' Awards 2019. In 2022, he won first prize in Writing Magazine's Grand Flash competition and was joint runner-up in the Evening Standard Short Story Competition. In 2023, his story 'I'll Never Be Young Again' won first prize in the Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature short story competition. He was also Highly Commended in the Emerging Writer Award from The Bridge Award. Northern Boy is his first novel. Read More Read Less