E. K. Moore

Place-based fiction by a geographer

Stories of weather, memory, streets, shorelines, and the strange life of places.

New “The Summer Dress” — forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine

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An eye for the emotional charge of place

E. K. Moore writes fiction attentive to the emotional charge of place — its weather, architecture, silences, and thresholds. With the eye of a geographer and the instinct of a fabulist, Moore's stories inhabit the borderlands between landscape and memory.

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Every place has a weather — and a memory that lingers after the sky has cleared.

Selected Works

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Places

Where the stories begin

Toronto. Southern Ontario.
Southern Portugal.
Lakeshores, suburbs, ravines, rooms.

These are the places where stories begin — a geography drawn across an ocean, from the lakeshores and ravines of Southern Ontario to the light and silence of Southern Portugal.

Antique watercolour map of the North Atlantic, from the Great Lakes to the Iberian coast, with a tall ship mid-ocean.
Publications E. K. Moore's fiction has appeared in

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Dispatches

Letters from two shorelines

An occasional letter from E. K. Moore — a place, a paragraph, and word of new stories when they find homes. A few times a year. No noise.

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