The longlist for the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was announced on Friday. In the running this year for the world's richest prize for a short story collection, is a globe-spanning field of seventy five authors. With thirty … [Read more...]
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Nathan Englander wins 2012 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
Nathan Englander has been announced as the winner of this year's Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, for his collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Alfred A. Knopf). Competing against a strong shortlist which … [Read more...]
Shortlist for 2012 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award unveiled
The shortlist for the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award has been announced, revealing an eclectic final six, with collections from eminent authors around the world. American, Lucia Perillo's debut work of fiction goes … [Read more...]
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Adopting new system for reading short stories, and an outrageously ambitious reading project
As my desire to spread a passion for short fiction deepens and widens, I've been fretting these past few days over how long it takes me sometimes, to work my through a short story collection/anthology. Often I find myself lumbering my way through a … [Read more...]
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Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2012 longlist
The nominees for this year's Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award have been announced, revealing a record breaking longlist of 77 short story collections from 17 different countries. Despite a €10,000 drop in the overall winner's … [Read more...]
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Costa Book Awards get ‘shorted’. A cause for celebration?
So, the headline news at the Costa Book Awards ceremony in London last night may have been the (deserved) victory of Andrew Miller who took the title of Costa Book of the Year with his novel Pure (Sceptre), but the bigger news for me - and every … [Read more...]
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