Olga Zilberbourg – New Short Stories

Successes in 2019 for New Short Stories contributors

2019 Highlights

November 11: V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2019 goes to Ursula Brunetti for “Beetleboy”.

October 2: BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University 2019: “The Invisible” by Jo Lloyd

September 27: Out Now: “The False River” short story collection by Nick Holdstock

September 20: Double chapbook launch. “Past contributors to WH New Short Stories, Brian Kirk and Jill Widner, enjoyed a double win at the Cork International Short Story Festival 2019.” (See also Feb. 15)

September 12: Danielle McLaughlin takes The Times/ Audible Short Story Award 2019

August 24: Book launch: “Like Water and Other Stories” by Olga Zilberbourg

July 3: Book launch: “Chalk Tracks” by Gina Challen, twice contributor to New Short Stories

March 13: Danielle McLaughlin receives Windham-Campbell award

Feb 15: Friends of Willesden Herald take both Southword fiction chapbook awards 2019

*It’s our own trumpet, we can blow it if we want.*

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Willesden Herald New Short Stories 11 is available from High Street Bookshops Online as well as Amazon (UK), Amazon.com and other booksellers. Link: More details including author pictures and profiles.

“Like Water and Other Stories” by Olga Zilberbourg

“I felt freer writing in English…[Russian] literature is divided, and with the gendering of language comes gendering of subject matters.” @bowlga talks to @ilanaslightly at @TheOtherStories!
LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES coming 9/5 from #WTAW https://t.co/AS3dR1eGRd pic.twitter.com/k89RpeJYX5
— WTAW Press (@WTAWPress) August 22, 2019

Olga Zilberboug’s short story “Love and Hair” took the Willesden Herald first prize in 2016, and is included in Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 9. We were very happy to see Olga in London to receive her award from judge Katy Darby. She makes a gracious acceptance speech at the end of this video from the event.

Pre-order “Like Water and Other Stories” direct from the publisher.
Read the Moscow Times review.

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

Read: Bananas for Sale by Olga Zilberbourg

Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 9

“The Volcano” by Anna Lewis
“The Cliffs of Bandiagara” by Catherine McNamara
“Supersum” by Barbara Robinson
“Twisted” by Tracy Fells
“The Mayes County Christmas Gun Festival” by David Lewis
“Undercurrents” by Gina Challen
“Love and Hair” by Olga Zilberbourg
“Last Call at the Rialto” by Daniel Waugh
“Looking for Nathalie” by Susan Haigh
“All that Remains” by Rob Hawke

Unspeakable secrets, disappeared husbands, bisexual love triangles, revolutionary conspiracies and African odysseys: from Sixties Paris to San Francisco, Arundel to Latin America, poets, murderers, musicians, schoolkids and festive firearms fanciers stalk these pages, waiting to greet you.

With an introduction by 2016 judge, Katy Darby