Non-Fiction
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Knocked Out By Nature’s Goliaths – tracking down the world’s biggest animals
Join the Pack on a European Safari – wildlife watching in Sweden, Estonia and beyond
It’s All Aboard Nature’s Arks For Some Real Animal Magic – wildlife watching on islands
Collecting Roar Data – voluntourism with lion researchers in Botswana’s Okavango Delta
Thoreau, a cabin and a meeting of minds – a visit to Concord and Walden Pond
Boston: Going from refuse to refuge
Pakistan: Top of the World – a visit to Hunza
Ghana: Far from the Safari Minibuses
Caribbean: Birdwatching in Trinidad
The Caribbean: Lounging and liming with the locals – meeting the last whaler of Bequia
Cuba: Love and lore in a hot climate
Panama: Exploring the canal and hinterland
Panama: Stuck on a branch line
Australia: Out on a Limb – travels in search of Australian wildlife
India: Spellbound by its beauty – on the trail of the tiger
Madagascar: Primates on parade
Sunderland: Strike a light – return to my hometown
Caribbean: Sea of Life – wildlife tour of the islands
Chile: Lava lovers – visit to Chile’s Lake District
Green Hawaii – wildlife tour of the islands
Midway Atoll: More than midway to paradise
West Virginia: Rapid progress – rafting the Gauley River
New York: Mighty Kings of Queens
Bermuda: Putting its house in order
Malawi: My date with a glamour puss
The Galapagos: Natural born thrillers
Yukon/Alaska: Going wild – bear watching
Canada: Stealing a glimpse of polar perfection – watching polar bears
Alaska: In the land of Tlingits, greenies and tar babies
Ecuador: In view only for an instant – brief encounter with a jaguar
Gdansk: The new town with 1,000 years of history
Lisbon: Just flown in for the winter holidays
Indonesia: Whose death is it anyway? – a visit to Tana Toraja in Sulawesi
Fiction
Appassionato – Narrative Magazine Fall 2014
Tuskers – Narrative Magazine Nov 2017
Ornithological – Momaya Short Story Review 2015
Pride Goes – The Moth Magazine Issue 22 Autumn 2015
Donal Ryan on Pride Goes: Pride Goes is a buoyant tale, its narrator’s world-weariness notwithstanding. The black comedy of Piet Cronje’s fate and the narrative wound around it allow a wider meditation; deeper questions are drawn from the bloke-ish musings of our hero, on the nature of society, the seeming pointlessness of our march towards our own extinction and the things we do to distract ourselves from the nearness of the void. A fantastically, fiendishly clever story.
Review of Pride Goes by David Morgan O’Connor: The first, second, and third place Moth Short Story winners are published in this issue. I would not have wanted to be the judge, as the stories are superb; in fact, as good or better than anything I have read in The New Yorker this year….Likewise, Richard Newton’s “Pride Goes,” is full of powerful prose; “Death is the prick in the balloon.” Or “These people, even including Bright, have this urge I don’t understand to celebrate the sunset.” “Pride Goes” portrays the life and hierarchy of a Botswana zoologist’s camp catering to tourists and scientists who want to be close to “nature.” Narrating the death of his predecessor, the newly hired maintenance man gives a crystalline insight into the inhumanity of humans who trade places with the animals they observe. The ending is fantastic, an image, so central and magical, that cannot be forgotten; but it will not be spoiled here.
In the Final Analysis – Bath Flash Fiction Anthology (2017)
Tuskers – The Saturday Evening Post, July/August 2018
A Rage in Spain – The Ocotillo Review Volume 3.1 (2019)
Backtrack – Scottish Arts Club Short Story Awards 2019
Battle Scars & It Was Charlie Hurley’s Fault – 24 Hour SAFC People (2020)
Richard Newton