Isele Magazine – New Short Stories

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.

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, … Continue reading

February 20, 2022June 22, 2022

Willesden Short Story Competition 2022

We’re back with a competition for inclusion in Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 12. Open to international entries. Closing date will be August 31, 2022. Entry fee £5. There are ten prizes, as follows: 1st prize: £300 + one-off inscribed Willesden Herald mug 2nd: £200 3rd: £100 7 x £50 Plus you get a copy … Continue reading

February 12, 2022February 20, 2022

Want to buy from proper bookshops?

Short Stories: Listings of Willesden Herald books from websites that support local bookshops Willesden Herald books from Blackwells.co.uk Willesden Herald books from Bookshop.co.uk Willesden Herald books from Hive.co.uk Willesden Herald books from Waterstones Poetry: Last Night’s Dream Corrected (2006) Last Night’s Dream Corrected from Blackwells.co.uk Last Night’s Dream Corrected from Bookshop.co.uk Last Night’s Dream Corrected … Continue reading

June 28, 2021March 19, 2022

Adverts for Literary, Academic or Community Organisations

Your advert in Willesden Herald New Short Stories 12? Organisations, would you like to help fund our current project, Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 12? We are open to including page adverts of a literary, community or educational nature in the forthcoming anthology. We have never applied for or received any public funding. In return … Continue reading

August 30, 2019July 13, 2022

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