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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Edge Hill Prize 2022 shortlist
The prestigious Edge Hill Prize is now in its 16th year and is the only national literary award to recognise excellence in a published, single-authored short story collection. This year’s shortlist includes two previously shortlisted writers and two debut collections, with the winner set to scoop a £10,000 prize. The five shortlisted books are:…
Conference: The Short Story and Short Story Collection in the Modernist Period: Between Theory and Practice.
Academia Belgica (Rome) * 12-14 September 2013 Universiteit Gent – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Università di Perugia Keynote speakers: Adrian Hunter (University of Stirling), Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Raffaele Donnarumma (Università di Pisa) The modernist period (1900-1940) is a time when the short story came into its own as an intricate, flexible and…
Edge Hill Prize 2018
The winner of the £10,000 Edge Hill Prize for a published short story collection will be announced at an award ceremony in London on Saturday November 3rd. The shortlisted authors are Tessa Hadley, Sarah Hall, Alison MacLeod, Tom Rachman and Leone Ross. There will be readings from all five collections: book your tickets at Waterstones…
CFP: Borders, Intersections and Identity in the Contemporary Short Story in English – Santiago 23-24 May 2019
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The Fifth Biennial John Updike Society Conference
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Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story
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