Congratulations to @DavidButlerBray on this prestigious win. David kindly lent us one of his short stories for Story of the Month, "Unless He Is Born Again", from his short story collection ‘No Greater Love’ (Ward Wood, 2013). Buy: https://t.co/bsu3Fbn9Ds https://t.co/c796h2Z5tE https://t.co/Po2KQehqVr
— Willesden Herald (@WillesdenHerald) July 5, 2022
Category: Past Contributors
Announcement: Jarred McGinnis to judge Willesden Short Story Comp.
We’re delighted to announce that novelist and short story writer Jarred McGinnis has agreed to judge the Willesden Herald Short Story Competition 2022. An American abroad, his debut novel The Coward (Canongate, 2021) was a BBC2 national television “Between the Covers” recommendation. It is also about to be published in the US and in France, Italy and Spain later this year. He has many strings to his bow, including short fiction for BBC Radio 4 and much more besides, which you can read all about on his website. He is no stranger to our competition, having had a short story in New Short Stories 4. (Submit)
Jo Lloyd’s Stories on Strong Edge Hill Shortlist 2021
Full shortlist and selected stories online: Announcement – 2021 Edge Hill Shortlist.
2022 One Dublin One Book: “Nora” by Nuala O’Connor
“Every year we choose a book that we hope will capture the imaginations of the people of Dublin, of all ages and walks of life, and I know that Nora will prove a rewarding reading experience for all who engage with One Dublin One Book 2022. For the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, it’s important for us to honour the contemporary writers Joyce has inspired, as well as the woman who inspired him. We look forward to working with Nuala O’Connor to create a programme of events next April that we hope will encourage many discussions and conversations.”
Dublin City Librarian, Mairead Owens
Leave Society – a new novel by Tao Lin
Tokyo – a novel by Nicholas Hogg
Nicholas Hogg’s short story Paradise was included in the first Willesden Herald New Short Stories anthology. He has gone on to great things. Visit NicholasHogg.com.
Johnny Boy – a novel by John Califano
JOHNNY CARUSO IS BORN into the urban turmoil of 1950s and ’60s working-class Brooklyn. Wedged between the limited worldview of his parents—alcoholic and abusive Bellisario and browbeaten, unstable Maria—and his liberal-minded older brother and sister, young Johnny struggles to navigate his childhood and adolescence.
Verve House Books
Thank you to John Califano for including Willesden Herald New Short Stories in the Acknowledgments for Johnny Boy. His story Independence Day was our Story of the Month, August 2018.
The Coward, a novel by Jarred McGinnis
July 2021: Spectacular debut novel by Jarred McGinnis, whose short story “Learning Stick” in New Short Stories 4 showed the brilliance that would eventually lead to Canongate publishing his novel The Coward.
You won’t find a more uplifting read in these dark times.
Irvine Welsh
Vote for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year 2020
Isele: Read “To Have a Ghost Baby”
Good news, you can now read N. Jane Kalu’s affecting story To Have a Ghost Baby in Isele Magazine. Originally featured in our own New Short Stories 11, it’s lovely to see it attaining a wider readership.
Story of the Month, September 2020
I dedicate the last of our 2020 lockdown series, and our last publication for the time being, to all those who have lost their lives and those bereaved in the Covid-19 pandemic. Follow the guidelines and stay well till all this is over. See you on the other side. (Ed.)
The Willesden Herald Short Story of the Month
September 2020: As Long as it Takes by Susan Haigh
“For Mireille, grief seems like an impossible dream.”
Sue Haigh is a writer and Creative Writing tutor. She lives in North East Fife when she isn’t living in her cave house in France. Her work has been published in a number of journals and anthologies, including Northwords Now, New Writing Dundee, Mslexia, The Scottish Arts Trust anthology, Cadenza, Sunpenny Anthology, Dundee University Review of the Arts, The Short review and a number of academic journals.
As Long as it Takes was originally published in the Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards anthology (Scottish Arts Trust, 2019)
Index of Contributors
Announcement: We’ve added this index of all the contributors to the Willesden Herald short story book series and Story of the Month.
Counting. Over the past sixteen years, Willesden Herald has published 139 short stories by 113 writers from Bosnia, Canada, China, England, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, USA and Wales.
New Short Stories 