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"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

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

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:

• Result of the short story competition with Rana Dasgupta*
• pretend genius page

* 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

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

Hot off the presses

and the ten shortlisted for the Willesden Herald international short story competition 2009 -> are <-

Facebook bookface

let's go out and get bookfaced - click this invisible link to join

Philippa Panshee

Short story competition update

Sponsorship deal announced (link)

Hurumako Hatoiti

here come the judge

Announcement

Rana Dasgupta has agreed to adjudicate the forthcoming Willesden Herald short story competition.

Brender Muhlbadoon

Friend of a friend

whiskey river

click above for quote from Joanne Kyger.

2 poems by Joanne Kyger in "last night's dream corrected".

haven't eaten for 3 days. (Smedley)