From the competition's website:   Since 2016, Aurora has provided a platform for writers, offering a prize that is truly national (and international) with its heart in the East Midlands. Our judges have included some of the region’s leading literary lights, with names such as Joanna Cannon, Casey Bailey, Mahsuda Snaith, Alison Moore, Jon McGregor,...

Rose Keating celebrates the publication of her much anticipated debut short story collection, Oddbody. Rose will be reading from the collection, before being in conversation with Jordan from the bookshop, answering questions from the audience and signing copies of Oddbody.

From the competition website: The Bournemouth Writing Prize Celebrating 10 Years of Outstanding Writing Submissions open April 2025 for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Bournemouth Writing Prize. This year, we’re celebrating a decade of discovering original writing, and we’d love to read yours. Submit one story, up to 3,000 words. All submissions close: 15th of August.   To enter: Submit - The...

Forced to leave her native Hungary by the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, Ágota Kristóf took up residence in Switzerland and began writing in French. Most famous for her Notebook Trilogy – ‘A book through which I discovered what kind of person I really want to be’ (Slavoj Žižek) – her short stories, now available for...

Argentinian author, Samanta Schweblin, celebrates the UK publication of her latest short story collection, Good and Evil and Other Stories (translated by Megan McDowell). Samanta will be in conversation about the book, before answering questions from the audience and signing copies of her books.