Interview with Jeff Gardiner, author of A Glimpse of the Numinous
Interview with Jeff Gardiner, author of A Glimpse of the Numinous reviewed by AJ Kirby What do you understand by the word ‘numinous’? I think of it as a way of … Continue reading →
Edge Hill Winners and Frank O’Connor shortlist
It was a win for the TV writers at the 2010 Edge Hill Short Story Prize ceremony this year: Jeremy Dyson, co-creator of The League of Gentlemen, scooped the main … Continue reading →
Cork City – Frank O’Connor Short Story Award Longlist
Here’s the longlist of short story collections for the 2010 Cork City – Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, now in its sixth year. Say the organisers: “The longlist is almost … Continue reading →
Edge Hill Short Story Prize Longlist Announced
The Edge Hill Short Story Prize, now in its third year, is the UK’s only literary award that recognises a published collection of short stories, and this year they have … Continue reading →
Short Lit Bits March
Short-stories-on-film #1: Electric Literature has released a new video, for Matt Sumell’s story, Little Things, animated by Vance Reeser. Sumell is the first “emerging” writer to feature in EL alongside … Continue reading →
Sunday Times Short Story Prize Longlist
The first annual Sunday Times short story competition, at £25,000 for a single story now the most lucrative prize in the world for writers published in the UK, has announced … Continue reading →
Short Lit Bits Jan/Feb
Entertaining tidbits from the world of short fiction.. In Memoriam #1: JD Salinger dies aged 91. “His stories presented readers with an utterly natural, strange and often disturbing landscape. Few … Continue reading →
