About
Place-based fiction by a geographer
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.
A geographer by training and vocation, Moore has spent a career reading landscapes the way other people read novels: for pattern, for feeling, for the things left behind in them. That habit of attention — to shorelines and parking garages, frosted windows and hospital rooms — became fiction almost by accident, and then by necessity.
The stories move between two geographies. One is the lake country of Southern Ontario: ravines, cottages, nameless graves above the water, winters that get into the bones of a house. The other is the south of Portugal, where the light itself seems to keep records, and where a single word spoken in an underground garage can briefly rearrange the world. Between them lies an ocean that Moore’s characters keep crossing — in ships’ manifests, in memory, in the half-hour when the shore is out of sight.
Moore’s short fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction North and White Wall Review, and new work is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine. A debut collection of place-based short fiction is in progress.
E. K. Moore lives in Toronto.
“Every place has a weather — and a memory that lingers after the sky has cleared.”
The Geographer’s Eye
Most fiction treats place as a stage. These stories treat it as a witness.
A geographer learns early that landscapes are not backdrops: they accumulate. A shoreline keeps an inventory of everyone who ever stood on it; a garage at 5:08 p.m. holds its own particular weather of bass, dust, and courage. Places hold weather the way people hold grief — long after the sky has cleared.
So the stories begin with location, not plot: a headstone worn down to three letters, a red call button at the rim of a hospital bed, the cool yawn of an underground garage in the Portuguese summer. The fiction is the act of listening to what the place already knows. Thresholds recur — beds, doorways, graves, borders, the space between two open car windows — because a threshold is where geography becomes biography.
Publications
“gently moving” — Flash Fiction North, on “Salam in the Garage”
For Editors & Press
E. K. Moore is a writer and geographer whose fiction explores the emotional charge of place — its weather, silences, and thresholds. Moore’s stories have appeared in Flash Fiction North and White Wall Review, with new work forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine. Moore lives in Toronto and is at work on a debut collection of place-based short fiction.
For rights, reprints, interviews, or representation inquiries:
ekmoore.writer@gmail.com
Instagram: @ekmoore.writer