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September 2014

Recent publications by contributors & friends of New Short Stories

Of course there are many other publications by contributors and friends of New Short Stories but these are ones that I have noticed lately. Those above and other authors included in New Short Stories are well published and have new books on the way, all over the world. If I have missed any recent ones, do let me know and I’ll update this list, if you like. I know I’ve missed many over the years, such as the marvellous Ninevah by Henrietta Rose-Innes. And I almost forgot that Charles was a contributor as well as a judge! 🙂

I think this will be my last update here for a while. It’s been fun. Please come sometime and see my new home page as a writer. Steve over and out. Sláinte!

 

The story so far

We are thrilled and honoured to announce that David Means has kindly agreed to be the judge for the eighth annual Willesden Herald international short story competition.

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David Means

David Means’ stories have a diamond-like sharpness and clarity, in which we visit locations, society and climates as vividly as in a waking dream. I couldn’t point to Sault Ste Marie on the map but I feel I’ve been there. I’ve never hung onto a train but I sort of know what it’s like now. I’ve never lived in an apartment in New York or slept rough but…you get the picture? Writers, you have your work cut out for you.

Links

Wikipedia: David Means
The Spot by David Means review by James Lasdun in the Guardian
Interview with David Means in the New York Times
Short stories by David Means in The New Yorker
NY podcast: David Means reads Chef’s House by Raymond Carver
David Means’ author page at Faber and Faber

So intercept a story when it stops at traffic lights, shine its windscreen with a piece of tissue paper the size of a coin, run home, type it out and send it to us as soon as electronically possible. Or whatever your process is. Closing date: Friday, 21 December 2012.

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Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 1

  • “Kid in a Well” by Willie Davis
  • “Mrs Nakamoto Takes a Vacation” by Steve Finbow
  • “Jolt” by James Lawless
  • “Vaselino” by Lee Joans
  • “Paradise” by Nicholas Hogg
  • “The Dead Don’t Do That Kind of Thing” by Wes Lee
  • “Words from a Glass Bubble” by Vanessa Gebbie
  • “Felipe and the Sea” by Jonathan Attrill
  • “Alternative Medicine” by Laura Solomon
  • “Born Again” by Shakti Bhatt
  • “Avoiding the Issue” by Laura Heggie
  • “Charles Magezi-Akiiki” by Olesya Mishechkina
  • “Atlantic Drift” by Arthur Allan

A feast of new stories from Britain, India, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand and the USA. This is an underground classic: read it on the tube/ subway/ metro and look cool while missing your stop.

Available from

isbn: 978-0977852628

Contributors (2007)

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