Brilliant to see David Szalay discussing his new novel FLESH in @thebookseller!
'I was very drawn to the idea of having a character who wasn’t articulate, who wasn’t able to tell the reader what the significance of his own story was'
https://t.co/NMTc3d3ljC
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Dark Underbellies: w/ Ross Raisin
Award Wins, what-the-bloody-hell-is-this? moments, and an ill-fated 2-piece kop band... The 2024 BBC NSSA winner chats about the win, his story in The Book of Bradford & memories of the city.
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The shortlisted books are now with our judging panel… while we wait for the ceremony on 20th February, when the winner will be announced, our interns are enjoying a spot of reading around our beautiful Edge Hill University campus. #edgehilluniversity#shortstoryprize#shortlist
Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the brilliant @ailsacox and her new collection of three stories, "Precipitation," with illustrations by Patricia Farrell https://t.co/49u7JJxkSU @EverybodyReview@crystalclearjt@Confingo@edgehill
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! Precipitation is a collection of three stories by @ailsacox with images by Patricia Farrell. The fifth in our series of collaborations between authors and artists, it's available for the special price of £6 (plus p&p) till 16.1.25. https://t.co/HIMhNZ1OvV
I don't know if you'd call this an apologia from the brilliant @Kerry2001, but it certainly provides an incisive background to her voice and identity as a writer deeply embedded in place and genre. Please read - would that we could all claim such roots...
Happy new year from the ENSFR! 2025 is an important year for us as it marks the 10-year anniversary of our first ever conference. You can read more about it here: https://t.co/OUdByRuFRm
Submissions are open for the BBC Short Story Awards 2025!
The BBC National Short Story Award and the BBC Young Writers’ Award are ready to receive your entries.
Find out more via the links below
https://t.co/G02YUwdrkR
https://t.co/gMVDBK5366
APPLY NOW! Our newly announced Brutalist Ghost Stories project includes an Arts Council England-funded Emerging Writer Programme, with mentoring for three early stage writers to contribute to an anthology of short uncanny fiction. Deadline: 31 January 2025 https://t.co/3HIYQN30Vu
To celebrate #nationalshortstoryday here are some recommendations for classic and contemporary masterpieces from writers and lovers of the form: https://t.co/Y01Eux7dOB
Thrilled to see my experimental short story 'The Worm' published in @The_JSSE's latest issue on Temporality & Landscape. Read for free here, along with some really stimulating papers on a fascinating theme:
https://t.co/5G5ZwhyHfh
🎄🎅🎁📚Miss our Christmas post dates? Fear not, you can still give the gift of an annual subscription to Cōnfingō magazine, out in spring and autumn, and only £20 for the year… simply click here to subscribe and that's another present sorted… https://t.co/7v0Wzy96dv