Lesley Bannatyne

Lesley Bannatyne received the 2024 Grace Paley Award for Lake Song, published by Mad Creek Books. She has won the 2018 Bosque Literary Journal fiction prize, the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award for fiction and theghoststory.com 2020 summer fiction prize. As a freelance journalist, Bannatyne covered stories ranging from druids in Massachusetts to relief workers in Bolivia, and her most recent non-fiction book, Halloween Nation, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist.

We Never Held The Guns

By Lesley Bannatyne / March 25, 2026

When her dad died at 43 years of age, Lucy and her mother planted a silver […]

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