From The Willesden Herald
The fantastic shortlist for this year’s award has been announced.
Read all about the authors and stories here:
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— The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award (@ShortStoryAward) July 28, 2019
Read excerpts from the six short stories and bio’s of the writers, including Danielle McLaughlin who won the Willesden Herald international short story award 2013, when our judge was David Means. Link: Sunday Times
This week’s story, “She Said He Said” by Hanif Kureishi, is now online. https://t.co/zoSw05Vz1T
— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) July 15, 2019
Text and reading by the author in The New Yorker online (limit on free access applies)
“Hanif Kureishi wrote the screenplays for My Beautiful Laundrette and Le Week-End, among other films. He has published eight novels, including, most recently, The Nothing.”
The New Yorker’s Fiction Issue is out today! Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Conduction”: “I was fresh out of Virginia, fresh out of the pit, my remarkable escape still alive in my mind.” https://t.co/cilQdJ3qji
— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) June 3, 2019
The flagship annual summer feast of fiction that keeps readers and writers delighted and hopeful respectively. See This Week In Fiction for many more short stories, interviews and readings.
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The Art of the Short Story: Tessa Hadley and Lucy Hughes-Hallett discuss with Mark Ford. Back by popular demand at the Queen’s Park Book Festival 29 June. Full programme here: https://t.co/8xyCtq3XOQ
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— Queen’s Park Book Festival (@QPBookfest) May 14, 2019
‘When I started I thought I wasn’t a person with a good memory but you tap into uncanny places where you have things saved up that you didn’t know you did until you got to that level.’ Tessa Hadley in The Times (2017) via “How Tessa Hadley Writes“
On the May New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Emma Cline reads and discusses “The Metal Bowl” by Miranda July, from a 2017 issue of the magazine.
— New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) May 1, 2019
“They are flames, moving up the hill from the village, torches lighting faces in the crowd. The voices build.”
Don’t miss our fantastic new #weekendread by @HenriettaRI ‘Animalia Paradoxa’ from her new collection of the same name out now on @bhousepress
— For Books’ Sake (@forbookssake) April 15, 2019
Direct link: Animalia Paradoxa by Henrietta Rose-Innes
Link to buy the book from the publisher: Boiler House Press
