My Work
Creative Work
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Read my short story ‘Albatross’ on Bandit Fiction: https://banditfiction.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/albatross-by-shannon-clinton-copeland/
Find my poem ‘Legends of George II’ in issue 96 of The Rialto: https://www.therialto.co.uk/pages/product/rialto-magazine-96/
Find my poem ‘Season for Rushes’ in issue 111 of Acumen: https://acumen-poetry.co.uk/product/acumen-111-january-2025/
Read my poem ‘GREATEST EMPIRE EVER’ on Anthropocene: https://www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/greatest-empire-ever-by-shannon-clinton-copeland
Read my poems ‘Brúid, or, Far Before the Present State’, ‘The Fourth Law of Motion’ and ‘Learning the Sonnet’ on The Galway Review: https://thegalwayreview.com/2024/12/21/shannon-clinton-copeland-three-poems/
Read or listen to my poem ‘Cinema Ticket’, commissioned by the National Centre for Writing for Living Wage Week 2022: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/listen-to-cinema-ticket-by-shannon-clinton-copeland/
Work in Publishing
See below a selection reel of books for which I have written commercial sales or back cover copy, or acted as developmental editor, copyeditor, proofreader or creative consultant. These range from YA fiction to adult non-fiction and genre writing.
Oscar Wilde’s Crucifix: A Biographical Experiment by Maarten Asscher, 2025 (creative non-fiction): https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781940423210?gC=f177369a3b
Cretaceous Dawn by Lisa Graziano and Michael Graziano, 2025 (science fiction): https://indiepubs.com/products/cretaceous-dawn
Small Change, Big Difference: The Penny Appeal Story by Adeem Younis, 2025 (autobiography): https://indiepubs.com/products/small-change-big-difference-the-penny-appeal-story
The Aves by Ryane Nicole Granados, 2024 (young adult): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/the-aves
Jellyfish Dreaming by D. K. McCutchen, 2023 (young adult): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/jellyfish-dreaming
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse Volume 1: “This is jolly old fame” by Paul Kent, 2023 (literary criticism): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/pelham-grenville-wodehouse-volume-1-this-is-jolly-old-fame
Ronaldo by Harry Coninx, 2023 (young adult non-fiction): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/ronaldo
The Home for Unwed Husbands by Molly Giles, 2023 (fiction): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/the-home-for-unwed-husbands
But First You Need a Plan by K. L. Anderson, 2022 (crime fiction): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/but-first-you-need-a-plan
Lost River, 1918 by Faith Shearin, 2022 (young adult): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/lost-river-1918
The Swill by Michael Keenan Gutierrez, 2022 (noir detective thriller): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/the-swill
Wife with Knife by Molly Giles, 2021 (literary fiction short stories): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/wife-with-knife
Nelson’s Victory by Kevin Jackson, 2021 (maritime history / biography): https://www.canofworms.net/nelson-s-victory
Amphibians by Lara Tupper, 2021 (literary fiction short stories): https://indiepubs.com/collections/leapfrog-press/products/amphibians
Like Fire Unbound by Simon Petherick, 2021 (fiction): https://www.canofworms.net/like-fire-unbound
