About

ALYSSA BUSHELL

I bake. I write.
What goes better together than a good story and a delicious fresh-baked pastry? Nothing. And I can give you both. Grab a hot cuppa and join me.

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All I really want is a beautiful, slow, simple, gentle, quiet life.

I love the crackling sound bread makes when you first take it out of the oven. I love the smell of the pages of a book, whether crisp and brand-new or aged yellowed and dusty. I love being near the water; it is soothing to the soul. I love listening to the rain, the first sip of coffee in the morning, and sitting on a dock at dawn watching the rising sun slowly make the morning mist disappear off the water. Life doesn’t have to be complicated to be beautiful.

What I Do

Literary Achievements

• Upcoming work in the short story anthology Small Town Summer Nights to be released April 2023.
• Better the Wolf You Don’t Than the Devil You Know published at The Centifictionist.
• Creative non-fiction essay Holding on to Happiness featured in the June 2022 Issue of Blank Spaces Magazine
• I am the Deafening Silence published at Reckon Review
• The Girl Who Screamed in the Night published by Ellipsis Zine
• Looking For a Home For One Dozen Egg Yolks published in Issue 9 of Leon Literary Review
• Long-listed in the Cranked Anvil November 2020 Flash Fiction Competition
• Short-listed in the Free Flash Fiction – Competition Two for my story There’s a Fist-Sized Hole in the Kitchen Window
• That Georgian Bay Blue published as an Honourable Mention in the Wingless Dreamer Travelogue The Wanderlust Within
• Listed as a contributor for Salar de Uyuni in Wingless Dreamer’s anthology Writers of Tomorrow