Jonathan Buckley has won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’. This evening (6th October) he was presented with the prize of £15,000 by this year’s Chair of Judges Allan Little at a ceremony held in the BBC’s Radio Theatre in London. The news was announced live on BBC... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comma Press is publishing In Another Country: Selected Stories and The Life-Writer by David Constantine to coincide with the release of the film “45 Years”, which is based on Constantine’s short story of the same name. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is to publish Gillian Flynn’s short story The Grownup as a standalone book for the first time. The Grownup first appeared under the title What Do You Do? in Rogues (Titan Books), an anthology of short stories edited by George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois. It will be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent publisher Galley Beggar Press is launching a short story competition this weekend. The Norwich-based publisher, which originally published Eimear McBride’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, said the competition built on the success of its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Zambia's Namwali Serpell has won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and is to share her £10,000 prize money with her fellow shortlistees. Serpell won the award with short story "The Sack" from Africa39 (Bloomsbury). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Keats-Shelley prize, launched in 1998 to celebrate the lives and works of the Romantic poets, has launched a new competition for teen writers. To enter the Young Romantics prize, teenagers aged 16-18 can write a poem or short story that is inspired by the work or lives of the Romantic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel says criticism of the BBC's decision to broadcast her short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher is "froth and bile". Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Emily Perkins about imaginary worlds, acting and the ebooks v print debate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2014-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling recently released a short story about the futures of such characters as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, while the new section of Universal Studios titled The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley just opened to the public. J.K. Rowling also recently... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling recently released a short story about the futures of such characters as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, while the new section of Universal Studios titled The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley just opened to the public. J.K. Rowling also recently... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The unnamed protagonist in Jack London's 'To Build a Fire' gets into trouble while hiking in the frozen Yukon with his dog. Widely considered to be London’s best short story, 'To Build a Fire' captures the cold with painful accuracy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The unnamed protagonist in Jack London's 'To Build a Fire' gets into trouble while hiking in the frozen Yukon with his dog. Widely considered to be London’s best short story, 'To Build a Fire' captures the cold with painful accuracy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile is to republish a short story by Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alice Munro is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. The Canadian author was lauded for being "master of the short story" by Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.Alice Munro is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. The Canadian author was lauded for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri is a master of the short story, but in applying that crisp, neatly tied style to her second novel, she comes up with a flat, detached tale."A short story is like a toothache and you must drill it and fill it. A novel is more like bridgework," said the writer T.C.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton will publish a new short story by Zadie Smith later this year.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Perhaps the muse only came to you at the same time those first few gray hairs popped up on your head. But when you pick up the odd book review or magazine, you are disturbed by the cult of youth.You’re a writer of a certain age. Perhaps you started a family when you were younger, and now your... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emily Smith, executive director of Lookout Books, has been in and out of the office more in the past few months than she has been in years, thanks to the success of her imprint’s very first release, a collection of new and previously published work from a 75-year-old master of the short story,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author of The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger is to write a short story for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The team behind the successful book Change the World for a Fiver has launched a free newspaper... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]