Juked - 2009 Fiction and Poetry Prizes
Fiction Winner: Jill Widner, 'Bisu and the Missionary's Daughter'
Congratulations Jill! You can read Jill's story "Mina and Fina and Lotte Wattimena" in New Short Stories. It conjures a sultry far eastern scenario of youthful adventure and discovery in rich and evocative detail. (Willesden Herald)
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Trees lounge
"Infamous author Aden Bell attempts to seduce a Dover edition of Gertrude Stein's famous book, Tender Buttons"
Cafe Hopeless
Friday, October 30, 2009
Newsletter #7
Pushcart Prize, Pretend Genius, Write This - announcing Pushcart prize nominees, Halloween issue and new book by Dean Strom
Pushcart nominations for Willesden finalists - nominating six out of New Short Stories 3. The nominated stories in order of appearance in the book are by Jo Lloyd, Carys Davies, Morowa Yejidé, Nick Holdstock, Jill Widner and Ben Cheetham. Congratulations and good luck to all - any could win! There is a good possibility that some of next year's short list could also be nominated, so get your hats on and saddle up or mosey down or whatever it is writers do to get into town.
Thoroughbred racing form
Jo Lloyd is the winner of the 2009 Asham Award. "...her gentle evocative story Because it is Running By won the £1,000 top prize announced on September 26 by chair of judges Di Speirs, executive producer for BBC Radio 4. The prize giving was held at Charleston, East Sussex, during the annual short story festival Small Wonder. The judges, who included David Constantine and Erica Wagner, were unanimous in their praise for Jo Lloyd's story. Among the tributes paid was one from novelist and short story writer Alison MacLeod. “This was one of the best stories I have read this year,” Alison commented. “Subtle, understated and poignant……a balance of eagle-eyed realism and really fresh lyricism …… with perfectly pitched rhythm of prose.” ... Jo Lloyd was brought up in Wales and now lives in Oxford. Her stories have been long listed for the Bridport Prize and she has won this year’s Willesden Herald Short Story Prize for her story Work."
Jo Lloyd's first win was earlier this year in our own competition and her winning story "Work" is in New Short Stories 3. "Jo Lloyd is somehow able to write everyday paragraphs that lift off into flourishes of quiet wisdom - a wisdom whose warmth and sensitivity is in poignant contrast to the cold world she describes." (Rana Dasgupta)
Friday, May 08, 2009
High praise for New Short Stories 3 author
Judge's Report
"Work" is a characteristically understated title for a story that concerns itself with the very ordinary, and manages to find there philosophy, politics, and great vistas of melancholy feeling. I admire it intensely: Jo Lloyd is somehow able to write everyday paragraphs that lift off into flourishes of quiet wisdom - a wisdom whose warmth and sensitivity is in poignant contrast to the cold world she describes.
Like all the best short stories, this is a capacious work of literature, and it confronts the reader with big questions. High-flown captions come to mind: it is about the degradations of capitalism, the nature of contemporary friendship, the meaning of work, of risk and of loyalty - but the story itself prohibits such ungainly representation. Jo has found for it a voice of memorable clarity and simplicity, and it speaks perfectly, beautifully, for itself.
Rana Dasgupta
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The winning story, as chosen by Rana Dasgupta, was "Work" by Jo Lloyd. (Full details)
Anthology
If you would like to read all the shortlisted stories, the best short stories for 2009, they are available now in New Short Stories 3.
Judge
Acclaimed author Rana Dasgupta kindly agreed to choose the winning entries.
About Solo (Fourth Estate, 2009): 'A novel of exceptional, astonishing strangeness, Solo confirms Rana Dasgupta as the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation.' (Salman Rushdie)
Tokyo Cancelled (Harper Collins, 2005) has been translated into nine languages. "Thirteen stories ... marvels of fabulation, visions and voices, rich in startling insights" (TLS). "The stories ... ah, they outdo The Arabian Nights for inventiveness" (Guardian).
"Work" is a characteristically understated title for a story that concerns itself with the very ordinary, and manages to find there philosophy, politics, and great vistas of melancholy feeling. I admire it intensely: Jo Lloyd is somehow able to write everyday paragraphs that lift off into flourishes of quiet wisdom - a wisdom whose warmth and sensitivity is in poignant contrast to the cold world she describes.
Like all the best short stories, this is a capacious work of literature, and it confronts the reader with big questions. High-flown captions come to mind: it is about the degradations of capitalism, the nature of contemporary friendship, the meaning of work, of risk and of loyalty - but the story itself prohibits such ungainly representation. Jo has found for it a voice of memorable clarity and simplicity, and it speaks perfectly, beautifully, for itself.
Rana Dasgupta
_________________________________________________
The winning story, as chosen by Rana Dasgupta, was "Work" by Jo Lloyd. (Full details)
Anthology
If you would like to read all the shortlisted stories, the best short stories for 2009, they are available now in New Short Stories 3.
Judge
Acclaimed author Rana Dasgupta kindly agreed to choose the winning entries.
About Solo (Fourth Estate, 2009): 'A novel of exceptional, astonishing strangeness, Solo confirms Rana Dasgupta as the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation.' (Salman Rushdie)
Tokyo Cancelled (Harper Collins, 2005) has been translated into nine languages. "Thirteen stories ... marvels of fabulation, visions and voices, rich in startling insights" (TLS). "The stories ... ah, they outdo The Arabian Nights for inventiveness" (Guardian).
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
write this giving away money
writethis.com now paying $50 per accepted piece. they don't look the same neither.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
nss3 launched - bless all who sail in her
"Inspiring night at Costa Coffee for the Short Story Night, with writers Jo Lloyd, Jill Widner, and Margot Taylor. Wise words from Rana Dasgupta who this year replaced Zadie Smith as judge of the Willesden Herald prize" (Lane7)
"I’ve just finished reading Jo Lloyd’s Work, and it is superb - a poignant and sensitive study of loneliness, bond-building and alienation within the workplace, that is subtly understated, and all the more powerful for that." (Jenny Barden)
"Another highlight is Amy by Nick Holdstock, who very ably and wryly depicts the sometimes quite contrary nature of the male psyche. The collections ends on a very high note with Ben Cheetham’s The Hate Club, a great evocation of how cruel hormone-ridden teens can be, and the pain that such actions can cause later in life." (Authortrek)
In the news on the prestigious BBC National Short Story Award site (The Short Story)
Dedicated website: New Short Stories
Clayton Clementine
"I’ve just finished reading Jo Lloyd’s Work, and it is superb - a poignant and sensitive study of loneliness, bond-building and alienation within the workplace, that is subtly understated, and all the more powerful for that." (Jenny Barden)
"Another highlight is Amy by Nick Holdstock, who very ably and wryly depicts the sometimes quite contrary nature of the male psyche. The collections ends on a very high note with Ben Cheetham’s The Hate Club, a great evocation of how cruel hormone-ridden teens can be, and the pain that such actions can cause later in life." (Authortrek)
In the news on the prestigious BBC National Short Story Award site (The Short Story)
Dedicated website: New Short Stories
Clayton Clementine
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Winner of 2009 Willesden Herald Short Story Prize announced.
The results are in and the winner of this year's Willesden Herald Short Story Prize is "Work" by Jo Lloyd. Here are some strange pictures from the event at Costa Cafe': strange pictures.
More details at pretend genius and willesden herald and new short stories.
The anthology based on the short-list and winner can be added to your collection of cool collectibles from our store: the bookstore.
More about the best short stories of 2009 here: New Short Stories 3 - the book.
Congratulations to everyone involved.
Horowitz Merkianou
More details at pretend genius and willesden herald and new short stories.
The anthology based on the short-list and winner can be added to your collection of cool collectibles from our store: the bookstore.
More about the best short stories of 2009 here: New Short Stories 3 - the book.
Congratulations to everyone involved.
Horowitz Merkianou
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Once more into the breach
If you can put up with Facebook's on again, off again privacy two-step gavotte (after all they can only promulgate whatever baloney you feed them!) please sign up for some divarsion and high jinks at one of these:
* Monday 9 March | Pulp Net | Short Story Café | 7.30pm
Rana Dasgupta will be at the Pulp Net Short Story Café, to announce the winner of the Willesden Herald Short Story Prize. And to give a reading.
Rana’s first book, Tokyo Cancelled, a thirteen-part story cycle, was published in 2005 and translated into nine languages. His novel, Solo, from which he will be reading later in the eveining, is out in March.
"A novel of exceptional, astonishing strangeness, 'Solo' confirms Rana Dasgupta as the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation." Salman Rushdie
Source/More: Pulp Net
Agnellis Nicospotou
* Monday 9 March | Pulp Net | Short Story Café | 7.30pm
Rana Dasgupta will be at the Pulp Net Short Story Café, to announce the winner of the Willesden Herald Short Story Prize. And to give a reading.
Rana’s first book, Tokyo Cancelled, a thirteen-part story cycle, was published in 2005 and translated into nine languages. His novel, Solo, from which he will be reading later in the eveining, is out in March.
"A novel of exceptional, astonishing strangeness, 'Solo' confirms Rana Dasgupta as the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation." Salman Rushdie
Source/More: Pulp Net
Agnellis Nicospotou
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Short story café
9 March 2009
Rana Dasgupta
at Costa Coffee in Piccadilly, London
The winners of the short story competition will be announced.
More: Pulp Net
Darleen Hunt
Rana Dasgupta
at Costa Coffee in Piccadilly, London
The winners of the short story competition will be announced.
More: Pulp Net
Darleen Hunt
Hot off the presses
and the ten shortlisted for the Willesden Herald international short story competition 2009 -> are <-
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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