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SUMMARY:Event: Meet the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Team
DESCRIPTION:The ENSFR is delighted to welcome representatives of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for a conversation about the Prize\, its history\, the 2026 shortlist\, and wider discussions around the state of the contemporary short story. The speakers include Razmi Farook (Director-General of the Commonwealth Foundation) and Emma D’Costa (Consultant to the Foundation) who managed the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for many years and remains a valued advisor and consultant for the prize. \nThe judging process for the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is underway. The shortlist will be announced in April\, the regional winners in May\, and the overall winner will be announced during the award ceremony in June 2026. The 2026 judging panel is chaired by award-winning British novelist and dramatist Louise Doughty. Louise’s fellow judges\, drawn from the five regions of the Commonwealth\, are: South African journalist\, author and short story writer Fred Khumalo (Africa); Bangladeshi writer\, translator and essayist Rifat Munim (Asia); Padlei Inuk Canadian poet\, novelist and scholar Norma Dunning (Canada and Europe); short story writer\, novelist and lawyer Sharma Taylor from Jamaica (Caribbean); and poet\, illustrator and author Maxine Beneba Clarke from Australia (Pacific). \nThe Commonwealth Short Story Prize is managed by the Commonwealth Foundation\, and was set up in 2012 to inspire\, develop and connect writers and storytellers across the Commonwealth. The Prize replaced the Commonwealth Short Story Competition (1996-2011). \nPlease join this online event via Teams: Stories Without Borders: Meet the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Team | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/stories-without-borders-meet-the-commonwealth-short-story-prize-team/
LOCATION:Teams
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260520T190000
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SUMMARY:Event: Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Idyl of the Island’
DESCRIPTION:Join the Victorian Short Story Reading Group to discuss ‘The Idyl of the Island’\, by Susan Frances Harrison. \n\n\n\n\nThe Victorian Short Story Reading Group has regular meetings to explore some of the exciting material from the golden age of the British short story\, which began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. \nCurrent Theme: Colonial Short Stories: Canada \nThe group will consider and discuss tales of and from Canada. These will cover portrayals of new settlers\, indigenous first nations people\, the landscape\, and the flora and fauna. \n‘The Idyl of the Island’\, by Susan Frances Harrison \n(First published in The Week\, a Canadian literary periodical\, 1886) \nA sleeping\, unnamed lady\, becomes the subject of the male gaze. The gentleman\, transfixed by beauty\, wishes to claim both the lady and the island as his own\, raising parallels to colonialism\, which we can discuss. \nUpon registration you will receive a link to an on-line copy of the text and\, as it is a short story group\, it will require no more than an evening’s preparation to read the required material. \nSessions take place monthly between October and June at a venue in Chiswick\, London\, W4 1TT\, between 7 and 8.30 pm. At each session there is a brief introduction to the work\, followed by a group discussion in a relaxed atmosphere\, with wine and nibbles supplied.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-victorian-short-story-reading-group-the-idyl-of-the-island/
LOCATION:The Victorian Society\, 1 Priory Gardens\, Chiswick\, W4 2PD
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260531T190000
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SUMMARY:Event: An Evening with Colm Tóibín
DESCRIPTION:To mark the publication of Colm Tóibín’s highly anticipated short story collection The News from Dublin (Picador)\, Writing on the Wall is delighted to reveal that the acclaimed Irish author will appear at WoWFEST26 on Sunday 31 May\, chaired by Professor Frank Shovlin. \nTóibín will discuss The News from Dublin\, a striking and deeply moving sequence of stories that span continents and generations\, from wartime Ireland to Barcelona\, Argentina and beyond. Moving between lives marked by exile\, secrecy and loss\, these luminous narratives explore family ties\, displacement\, and the enduring pull of home and memory. \nBorn in Enniscorthy in 1955\, Tóibín is the author of numerous acclaimed novels and short story collections\, including The Empty Family\, Brooklyn\, The Master\, The Magician and Long Island. A three-time Booker Prize finalist\, he has received the David Cohen Prize for Literature\, served as Laureate for Irish Fiction (2022–2024)\, and was Chancellor of the University of Liverpool until 2017. \nHe will be joined by Frank Shovlin\, Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and an acclaimed critic and editor. Shovlin is renowned for his scholarship on James Joyce and John McGahern\, including The Letters of John McGahern (Faber & Faber) and the forthcoming biography John McGahern: A Writing Life.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-an-evening-with-colm-toibin/
LOCATION:The Black-E\, The Black-E\, 1 Great George Street\, Liverpool\, L1 5EW
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SUMMARY:Event: ENSFR reading group\, June meeting
DESCRIPTION:The next short fiction reading group meeting will take place (via Zoom) on Monday 1st June at 5pm (UK time). Below\, you can find information on how to join the online meeting room. I have attached an iCalendar file that you can add to your calendar. \nDuring the meeting\, we will be discussing Julie-Ann’s reading suggestion: the short story “Death by Landscape” by Margaret Atwood. You can access the short story from this link: \nhttps://223141929335512656.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/0/9/17093284/deathbylandscape_atwood.pdf \nOur conversation will focus on the following discussion points that Julie-Ann has selected: \n\nThe story opens in a domestic interior but moves to a landscape of ‘wilderness’. How are these two contrasting spaces integral to the story?\nIs there a power dynamic in the friendship between Lois and Lucy?\nWhat is significant about the presentation of the camp and the language Atwood uses?\nDoes this story fit the category of bildungsroman?\nHow does Atwood explore ideas of colonisation?\nIn the following quote bodily absence is made significant. How does this idea relate to the wider societal conceptualisation of the female body through art\, culture and mass media? How are female bodies represented elsewhere in the story?\n\n“But a dead person is a body; a body occupies space\, it exists somewhere. You can see it; you put it in a box and bury it in the ground\, and then it’s in a box in the ground. But Lucy is not in a box or in the ground. Because she is nowhere definite\, she could be any where.” \n\nStructurally the story moves from present to past to present\, using character memory to explicate the main story. How does ‘framing’ the past within the present impact ideas and meanings?\nThe story ends with a mystery? Is the reader invited to play detective?\n\nThose who are interested in exploring the work further might want to read Atwood’s collection Wilderness Tips which also features “Death by Landscape”. Many of the other short stories in the collection are worth reading in conjunction\, particularly “True Trash”. This is a recommendation by Julie-Ann. It is not mandatory to read further short stories for the meeting. \n— \nInes Gstrein is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic:  Short Fiction Reading Group – June 2026 \nTime: Jun 1\, 2026 05:00 PM London \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85116499205?pwd=hx6KiEeoOcdhPibo4Egw3770UQhger.1
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ensfr-reading-group-june-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Event: I’ve Never Read Elizabeth Gaskell Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Gaskell’s House marked the 10th anniversary of its restoration and opening to the public with a bold new exhibition called I’ve Never Read Elizabeth Gaskell\, as part of a project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.\nThree young writers – Georgia Affonso\, Princess Arinola Adegbite and Guruleen Kahlo – were awarded inaugural writers’ residencies at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House\, Manchester’s only literary house\, and it is their endeavours that take centre stage. \nThey began their journey having never read Elizabeth’s work\, but by spending time at the house they have been immersed in her writing and role as a social reformist. Through their eyes visitors will also be able to discover just how much there is to the inspiring world of Elizabeth Gaskell. \nCreated in partnership with The Writing Squad and Manchester City of Literature. Please check the library opening times before planning your visit.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ive-never-read-elizabeth-gaskell-exhibition/
LOCATION:Rochdale Central Library\, Rochdale Central Library\, Number One Riverside\, Smith Street\, Rochdale\, OL16 1XU
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SUMMARY:Event: Ben Pester and Keith Ridgway at Bàrd Books
DESCRIPTION:Join author Ben Pester and Keith Ridgway with Barry Pierce to discuss their new books \n\n\n\n\nDoors 630pm\, event start 7pm prompt \nBEN PESTER is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? (2021) and the novel The Expansion Project (2025)\, which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards and the Goldsmiths Prize. \n“Pester is a genius of capturing the vicissitudes of contemporary life” LUKE KENNARD \nSail Away Land is the space where we might go when we’re no longer alive (sometimes only temporarily). In this uncommon and disarming collection\, the characters go ‘there’ with or without knowing it. Maybe they have been living there all along without noticing – just like they hadn’t really noticed that everyone is carrying a shiny black suitcase. \nThese stories are about normal things – losing the people we’re closest to\, forgiving them\, finding love and managing to hold onto it – but also about going to parties through a door in the back of a colleague’s head\, housebreaking in search of a sister’s ghost\, and asking the strangers in the kitchen to resurrect you at midnight. \nLike brilliant and strange anxiety dreams in prose\, the stories in Sail Away Land are full of temporal weirdness\, life and non-being\, psychological acuity\, imagination and wit\, all while being effortlessly\, seductively readable and incredibly moving. \n“Moving deftly between corporate weirdness\, the anxiety of rejection\, and the warm haze of childhood memory\, Sail Away Land is just how I like my short story collections: playful and particular. I feel lucky to have read it.” SABA SAMS \nKeith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His novels include A Shock\, which won the 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Goldsmith’s Prize; Hawthorn & Child; and Animals. His first novel The Long Falling was filmed by Martin Provost as Où Va La Nuit in 2011. He has been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger\, the O Henry award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Dooneen is published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and by New Directions. \nThe astonishing Irish literary magician Keith Ridgway pulls from his hat the Great Dublin Novel for the 21st century \nBartholomew Port\, known to all as Mew\, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that—there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite queer. Home by invitation\, he has arrived in a Dublin that is alive with song\, with rumor\, with tunnels\, with ghosts\, and with an unmistakable sense of insurgency. In this suspiciously timeless city that breathes an old revolutionary air\, Mew fiercely misses his beloved Mootie\, back home in London. \nAn unraveling\, an impossibility\, a gathering of voices\, and a single dream\, Dooneen is the layered\, allusive and wildly original new novel from Keith Ridgway\, “one of Ireland’s best writers\, in a country with no shortage of them” (The Times).
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-ben-pester-and-keith-ridgway-at-bard-books/
LOCATION:Bàrd Books\, 341-343 Roman Road\, London\, E3 5QR
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SUMMARY:Event: Sara Baume & Emily LaBarge discuss Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:Shortly after the pandemic lockdown Sara Baume came across a painting in a pop-up exhibition in a renovated West Cork shed. Fascinated by it\, she became determined to make the painter’s acquaintance – although a native of North Dakota the artist Mollie Douthit was now living and working in rural Ireland. Bonded by a common love of nature and a commitment to their respective artistic practices\, they began to meet regularly\, to talk\, to eat and to swim. What would it be like\, Baume wondered\, to write a book in the style of Mollie’s painting? Opening Night is the result. She will be in conversation with Emily LaBarge\, author of Dog Days.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-sara-baume-emily-labarge-discuss-opening-night/
LOCATION:London Review Bookshop\, 14 Bury Pl\, London\, WC1A 2JL
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260822T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260822T143000
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SUMMARY:Event: Lucy Caldwell & Nell Stevens\, Short Story Magic
DESCRIPTION:BBC National Short Story Award-winning Lucy Caldwell (author of Openings and These Days) and Nell Stevens (author of The Original and Somerset Maugham Award-winning Mrs Gaskell & Me) are both masters at catapulting you into characters’ lives\, conjuring entirely new worlds in a matter of pages. In this conversation they discuss their new story collections\, Devotions and The Good Time\, talking stories of love\, grief\, haunted lives\, emotional crossroads\, and irresistible humour with Di Speirs.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-lucy-caldwell-nell-stevens-short-story-magic/
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