The Lit Room
Wednesday May 6th, 2026 with Susan Johnston
Natalie Southworth (Linda Leith Publishing, 2026)

Susan Johnston sits down with Natalie Southworth to talk about There's Always More to Say (Linda Leith Publishing, 2026), her debut short story collection, a warmly praised, razor-sharp gathering of stories about ambition, longing, and the quiet chaos of modern life. Southworth's fiction, which has won The Brighton Prize and appeared in literary journals across Canada, the UK, and the US, explores characters caught between who they are and who they thought they'd be: a puppeteer reinventing himself as a realtor, a working mother undone by her own success, sisters slipping out into the world to find something real.