E L Faull

E L Faull is the pen name of Lowenna Faull, who grew up in a Quaker family on the North Cornish coast. She has worked in restaurants, bookshops and for the British Council, before building a career in urban regeneration in Liverpool and Manchester. She now writes literary fiction in Exeter, where she lives with her husband, two teenagers and Pan, a Bengal cat.

October 2026 ‘All the Dogs in the Town’, ‘Come When You Are Called’ and ‘All Your Children Are Gone’ are currently shortlisted for the SaveAs Writers International Writing Competition.

August 2026 ‘45 Providence Square’ was a finalist in the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award, judged by Booker-longlisted Irish novelist Donal Ryan, winner of the EU Prize for Literature

August 2026 ‘No One Told Me Mice Had Teeth’ was shortlisted in the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award.

July 2026 Two stories 'Marden' and 'Long Cripple' were longlisted for the 2026 Frome Short Story Competition, judged by Claire Fuller, whose novel Unsettled Ground won the 2021 Costa Novel Award.

July 2026'The House That Jack Built' reached the second round of the 2026 Bridport Prize, placing in the top 7% of entries, judged by Manuel Muñoz, a MacArthur Fellow and three-time O. Henry Award winner.

May 2026 'Spider' was shortlisted for the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition.

May 2026 'Toil and Trouble' and 'The Last Song of Sylvie Costa' have both been selected as finalists in the Next Generation Short Story Awards.

E L Faull has twice been a finalist in the New Generation short story awards.

'All the Ends of the Earth'
A Novel
Set in rural England against the fractured summer of 1981, this is an atmospheric coming-of-age novel told through the voice of fourteen-year-old Kit Harper.

'Urban Parables: Stories from a Winter City'Thirteen characters who never meet are linked by the city they inhabit and by the consequences of what they choose, give away, or take. Contemporary parables of mercy, judgement, kindness and betrayal.

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E L Faull

August 2026 ‘45 Providence Square’ was a finalist in the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award, judged by Booker-longlisted Irish novelist Donal Ryan, winner of the EU Prize for Literature

'All the Ends of the Earth' A Novel Set in rural England against the fractured summer of 1981, this is an atmospheric coming-of-age novel told through the voice of fourteen-year-old Kit Harper.

'Urban Parables: Stories from a Winter City'Thirteen characters who never meet are linked by the city they inhabit and by the consequences of what they choose, give away, or take. Contemporary parables of mercy, judgement, kindness and betrayal.

'All the Ends of the Earth'
A Novel
Set in rural England against the fractured summer of 1981, this is an atmospheric coming-of-age novel told through the voice of fourteen-year-old Kit Harper.