Edge Hill Prize shortlist
Collections by Madeleine D’Arcy, Carys Davies, Kirsty Gunn, Toby Litt, Anneliese Mackintosh and Rose Tremain shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2015.
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Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 9.1
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