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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:Competition Deadline: Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nThe 2026 Queen Mary  Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open.\nThe seventeenth edition of the prize is now open for original entries and entries in translation across Fiction\, Life Writing\, and Poetry. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-queen-mary-wasafiri-new-writing-prize/
CATEGORIES:Competition Deadline
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Fiction Factory Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \n\n\nTop prize- £500 \nLength of story: max 3\,000 words \nEntries should be as a Word document. \nAll types of stories are welcome (excluding Children’s and Young Adult\nFiction). \nEntry Fee: £7.00 (£13 for 2 stories\, £18 for 3 stories) \nEntry fee plus optional critique: £35.00 \n\n\n\n\nWinning stories will be published on this website and\, at a later date in a planned anthology \n\n\n\n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-fiction-factory-short-story-competition/
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Wells Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \nGot a potential page-turner inside you? Then polish up your prose and send your entry to this year’s Short Story Competition. First prize is £750\, while second and third-place winners will receive £300 and £200 respectively.\nThere is also a special prize of £100 in the category for best local author.\nCompetitions open on 1 April and close on 30 June. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-wells-short-story-competition/
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: The Olga Sinclair Prize
DESCRIPTION:From the competition deadline: \n  \nTheme: WALLS \nWord Limit: 2000 words (excluding the title) \nThe Brief: Judges are looking for wise choices of vocabulary\, well-structured plotting and description\, sparkling dialogue\, pace and precision. Although the theme is always selected to represent Norwich you are free to interpret this however you see fit. Your story does not have to be connected to Norwich\, but it does need to have the concept of Walls as its central theme. \n  \nEnter here.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-the-olga-sinclair-prize/
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SUMMARY:Residency: Jaunpils Writers’ Castle Residency (Latvia 2026)
DESCRIPTION:The Tukums UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence Programme will be based at Jaunpils Castle in the Tukums region of Latvia. Traditionally published writers\, poets\, playwrights and screenwriters connected to UNESCO Cities of Literature are invited to apply. \nThe residency will take place in October 2026 and will run for 2-4 weeks. The application deadline is 30 June 2026.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/residency-jaunpils-writers-castle-residency-latvia-2026/
LOCATION:The National Centre for Writing
CATEGORIES:Residency
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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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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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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Special Issue on William Faulkner in Journal of the Short Story in English
DESCRIPTION:JSSE 90 (Spring 2028) \nGuest edited by: \n\nFrançoise Buisson\,Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour\nSolveig M. Dunkel\, Université de Lille\nFrédérique Spill\, Université de Picardie Jules Verne\, president of the William Faulkner Society.\n\n\nDeadline for abstract submissions: 30 October 2026 \n\n\nSuggested Proposals\nThe purpose of this special issue of JSSE is thus to examine the challenges faced by Faulkner as a short story writer\, especially—but not exclusively: \n\nthe status of the short story in Faulkner’s work and its reception\neconomic imperatives and consumerism\nexperimentation and short fiction as “a creative writing workshop”\nFaulkner’s play with the traditional forms\, conventions and contents of the genre: narrative technique\, stylistic devices and strategies\, punctuation and typography\nFaulkner’s phenomenological writing\, his writing of sensation\nellipsis and the unspeakable; condensation and proliferation\nFaulkner’s use of different chronotopes and his handling of chronology\nmeta/short fiction and the mise en abyme of short story writing\nthe Southern Gothic\norality\, cock-and-bull stories and tall tales\, short fiction and humor\, Frontier humor\nthe ecopoetic dimension in wilderness short stories\ninitiation in the short story and for the short story teller\nchildhood and children as story-tellers and/or characters\nmargins in the short story: the community and the individual; race and gender relations for example\nqueer Faulkner
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-william-faulkner-in-journal-of-the-short-story-in-english/
CATEGORIES:Call for Papers
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