Nick Holdstock is a three-time contributor to the New Short Stories series and won the Willesden Herald international short story prize in 2014.
Month: September 2019
Cork International Festival: Short Fiction Chapbooks Launch Event
As we previously reported, past contributors to WH New Short Stories, Brian Kirk and Jill Widner, enjoyed a double win at the Cork International Short Story Festival 2019. The garlanded stories are set to be launched in chapbook form at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 26th at Cork City Library.
Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize 2019: Deep Heart by Kandace Siobhan Walker
Deep Heart by Kandace Siobhan Walker beat almost 200 others to win the £1,000 award set up by the Guardian and 4th Estate in 2015. The Guardian report describes the story as “a poignant exploration of kinship and community.”
“We are always barefoot. I try to explain this to the police officers who arrive from the mainland. We’re quieter this way and we need to be quiet when we’re stalking wild animals in the pine forest. …”
Read “Deep Heart” by Kandace Siobhan Walker in full in Guardian Online.
Danielle McLaughlin takes The Times/ Audible Short Story Award 2019
“The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award is the richest prize for a single short story in the English language, worth £30,000 to the winner.”
ShortStoryAward.co.uk
London, September 12: Congratulations to Danielle McLaughlin, whose short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets is the calling card of a world-class young writer.
We’re well chuffed here because Danielle won the Willesden Herald prize in 2013, as chosen that year by David Means, for “Holidaying with the Megarrys” (New Short Stories 7.)
Earlier this year, we reported on Danielle McLaughlin receiving a Windham-Campbell award for 2019. On a roll!
The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 – Finalists
The shortlist is:
- ‘The Children’ by Lucy Caldwell
- ‘Ghillie’s Mum’ by Lynda Clark
- ‘Silver Fish in the Midnight Sea’ by Jacqueline Crooks
- ‘My Beautiful Millennial’ by Tamsin Grey
- ‘The Invisible’ by Jo Lloyd
The result will be announced on Radio 4 “Front Row” on October 1st.
New Yorker: Louise Erdrich reads her short story “The Stone”
On this week’s episode of the Writer’s Voice podcast, Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Stone,” from the September 9, 2019, issue of the magazine. https://t.co/cSBRsKilhK
— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) September 3, 2019
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‘t forget the new Twitter version provides a facility to “bookmark” tweets for later. This can help if you haven’t got time to read just now or have used up all your “free views” till next month. Direct link to text and reading: The Stone by Louise Erdrich.
Photo: “Author Louise Erdrich reading at the 2015 National Book Festival. Erdrich won the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Round House.” (Wikipedia)
