Inner Core
Death, anxiety, masculinity, family and children, social good – and rocks. All things that touch the life of a middle-aged man. In these stories, written over the past two years, author Miki Lentin goes in search of a rock with his child in Ireland, travels to Istanbul with his wife while sleep-deprived, recounts memories of working and growing up in Dublin, and explores what it means to do good in society today. All told with Lentin’s minimalist tone, Inner Core portrays his life on the edge.
Miki Lentin
Miki Lentin took up writing while travelling the world with his family a few years ago. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in 2020, and was a finalist in the 2020 Irish Novel Fair for his first book, Winter Sun.
Miki has been placed highly in competitions including Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize, Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Award, and Leicester Writes, and has been published in Litro, Storgy, Story Radio, MIR amongst others. In 2022 he brought out a collection of short stories with Afsana Press, Inner Core, that cover death, anxiety, masculinity, family and children and social good. The book was called ‘consistently enthralling… funny, moving and disturbing in equal measure’ by Francis Gilbert, author of I’m a Teacher Get Me Out of Here. Miki volunteers with refugee charity Breaking Barriers and with foodKIND in Greece, and dreams of one day running a café again.
Publications & Prizes:
-Inner Core (2020)
-Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize: placed highly
-Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Award: placed highly
-Leicester Writes: placed highly
