Meet Patrick Strickland, a 2024 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note working on his short story collection, A History of Heartache: Stories.
This interlinked short story collection is populated by people in or from Texas, enduring the corrosive impacts of capitalism, extremism, poverty, and substance abuse.
“I hope these stories shine a light on the corrosive effect of masculinity, extremism, conspiracy theories, and the way capitalism can doom us to a place.”
An exciting update from Patrick: His third nonfiction book, You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece, will be published by Melville House in April 2025.
Patrick Strickland is a journalist and writer from Texas. His short fiction has appeared at Porter House Review, The Coachella Review, Pithead Chapel, and The Broadkill Review, among others. He’s the author of three nonfiction books, including the forthcoming You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece (Melville House 2024). He holds an MFA in writing from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and works as the managing editor of Inkstick Media. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and placed third in the 2021 Larry Brown Short Story Award competition.