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Jo Lloyd’s Stories on Strong Edge Hill Shortlist 2021
Full shortlist and selected stories online: Announcement – 2021 Edge Hill Shortlist.
Writing Course Online with Toby Litt
New Yorker Fiction: “The Depletion Prompts” by David Means
Lucy Caldwell Takes BBC National Short Story Award 2021
Three-time nominated Lucy Caldwell has won the sixteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) with ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad’, a story taken from her 2021 collection, Intimacies. The news was announced live on BBC Front Row by 2021 Chair of Judges, James Runcie. Caldwell, a multi-award-winning writer from Belfast, was previously shortlisted in 2012 and 2019.
BBC Radio 4 National Short Story Award 2021
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.
Vote for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year 2020
The world’s best writers reveal their favourite short stories…
“Some of our great writers – from Elizabeth Strout to Mark Haddon – nominate what their favourite short story is, and tell us, in this intimate series, why they love it so much. You can watch the series here, with new choices every week”
Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award website
New Yorker: “The Resident Poet” by Katherine Dunn
(May 4) The story in this week’s issue, “The Resident Poet,” is a previously unpublished piece by Katherine Dunn, who died in 2016 and was the author of, among other things, the best-selling 1989 novel “Geek Love,” which follows a family of self-described “freaks” who operate and perform for a travelling circus.
Deborah Treisman
I’d read “Geek Love” three times…
Naomi Huffman
A previously unpublished story by the late Katherine Dunn. It’s a road trip, starts in a car park in the night rain, we go places, the resident poet is excoriated, sordid things happen, ends back in the night car park with a reflection in glass. What’s not to like? (Ed.)