Justine Bothwick reads ‘Tenderness’ from Issue 12 of The Lonely Crowd.

Justine Bothwick grew up in Kent and Hampshire, and studied in London. She is a graduate of the Manchester Writing School’s Creative Writing MA programme and has short stories published in Fictive Dream, Virtual Zine, Confingo Magazine, and forthcoming with Nightjar Press. Her work was highly commended in the Bath Short Story Award 2020. Her debut novel– In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced – will be published with Agora Books in 2021. She lives and teaches in Rome, Italy.