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)
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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.
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
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?
Litro: “The Fitting” by Angelina Taylor
In today’s #flashfriday a young woman goes for a bra fitting. Should she trust the shop assistant? Read The Fitting https://t.co/vkr3ycupzF by Angelina Taylor via @LitroMagazine pic.twitter.com/zA0DjMcTV3
— Litro Magazine (@LitroMagazine) January 18, 2019
lol
TSS Publishing: “God’s Fingers” by Josie Turner
NEW
‘God’s Fingers’ – a short story by Josie Turner!
‘He kept a large glass vase half-filled with golf balls that had crashed into his property – a sort of calendar, measuring the time elapsed since his wife’s death.’https://t.co/KRCQ4iRXY9 pic.twitter.com/bq3nbLxKjw
— TSS Publishing (@TSSPublishing) January 16, 2019
Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2018: “Plunder” by Deirdre Shanahan
‘It’s warm in the shop, the window so wide the whole of the street is beside me’. New #fiction on Wasafiri https://t.co/yexANk7TlO
— Wasafiri (@WasafiriMag) January 7, 2019
From Wasafiri: Deirdre Shanahan’s work was included in ‘The Best of British Short Stories 2017’. Her novel The Night Breathing is forthcoming from Bluemoose Books.
Belfast Telegraph: “Miss Heidi’s Christmas Angel” by Martin Tyrrell
My short story ‘Miss Heidi’s Christmas Angel’ in today’s Belfast Telegraph. Thanks to @LouiseReddick and Pauline Rooney for comments and suggestions. https://t.co/KB6NBsukjf
— Martin Tyrrell (@mjat42) December 24, 2018
“She was about to speak when she saw some writing in Heidi’s uncertain hand on the back of a flyer from a double-glazing firm.
Luxembourg – pretty girl, good voice.
Germany – boys, novelty tune.
France – elegant lady, very French”
Belfast Telegraph: Miss Heidi’s Christmas Angel by Martin Tyrrell
