"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
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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
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