My writing advice, gathered in one place – https://t.co/DCyvlMfSNQ pic.twitter.com/z0k3xyOX7k
— Toby Litt (@tobylitt) February 22, 2019
“If you find these interesting, you might like to read the other literary essays in my book Mutants.” (Toby Litt)
Author: SJ Moran
Olga Zilberbourg: A story from St Petersburg in the early 1990s
My story from St. Petersburg in the early 1990s is up on @ScoundrelTime! Thank you, @Karen_E_Bender and @paulawhyman for your thoughtful questions that helped to get the turns of this story just right. This is from my upcoming book Like Water w @WTAWPress! https://t.co/5pA3Czs3U9
— Olga Zilberbourg (@bowlga) February 19, 2019
Friends of Willesden Herald take both Southword fiction chapbook awards 2019
Congratulations to the winners of the Southword Fiction Chapbook Competition! A Middle Eastern No by Jill Widner (Best International Chapbook) and It’s Not Me It’s You by Brian Kirk (Best Irish Chapbook) will be published in autumn 2019. Read more here: https://t.co/jsV9iSp7Ph pic.twitter.com/WuGx9o55zO
— Munster Literature Centre (@MunLitCentre) February 15, 2019
Congratulations to Jill Widner and Brian Kirk, both past contributors to Willesden Herald New Short Stories (as kindly acknowledged in their credit lists), on taking the International and Irish top prizes in the Southword Fiction Chapbook Competition 2019.
“The Island” by Tove Jansson
What could make today better? How about a never-before-translated essay by Tove Jansson. https://t.co/q1tk6RAen7
— The Paris Review (@parisreview) February 13, 2019
With an intro by Herman Diaz who describes it as “at once a short story, an essay, and a prose poem.” Here’s a direct link. It is believed that this is the first time it has appeared in an English translation.
Submissions window closed
We have closed to submissions pro tem, hoping to open again, maybe later this year. Thank you to readers and writers for your interest and support to date. Cheers! (Stephen)
Granta: A new short story by Caoilinn Hughes
I have a new story, ‘My Biggest Insecurity About the Garden’ in @GrantaMag.
It’s about freaky infrastructure, sociability, slippery footholds in one’s life + environment. Or: A Finnish UN systems engineer goes on a business trip to Singapore. 🙏 @lukeneima— Caoilinn Hughes (@CaoilinnHughes) February 4, 2019
BBC Radio 3: A subjunctive story by Toby Litt
‘If only I were a different person, I would find it easy to tell you what I feel about you. But I can’t. I live in the subjunctive – the lonely, ghostly silence of if only…’
So my subjunctive story begins. Hear the rest at 10pm this evening https://t.co/cmmLwl2hpv @R3TheVerb pic.twitter.com/91fXSGqegB
— Toby Litt (@tobylitt) February 1, 2019
“Ian McMillan gets into the subjunctive mood with brand new writing from Toby Litt, a new poetry commission from Holly Pester, on the subjunctive in welsh with Menna Elfyn and Rob Drummond explains why the subjunctive is dying out amongst the young…” (The Verb, BBC Radio 3, 1 Feb. 2019)
The New Yorker: “Cream” by Haruki Murakami
Masterly storytelling that keeps you reading, in the hope that you’re going to get somewhere. Link: “Cream” by Haruki Murakami
— The Willesden Herald (@storyofthemonth) January 23, 2019
But do you – get anywhere?
“Ten Months with Octopus” by Angela Readman
Multiple award-winning writer, Angela Readman, has won the New Flash Fiction Review “Anton Chekov prize for very short fiction” with this little gem.
Nothing doing in Feb., anything happening in March?
Sorry but there’s no story of the month for February 2019, as the deadline has passed without anything suitable received. The next cutoff date will be Friday, February 15th for the March edition. Don’t mention … you know what.
