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Tag: Short Stories

Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti: an exuberant, insightful short story collection

25th July 2022  Laetitia Erskine

Nana Nkweti cleaves open worlds shaped by Cameroonian heritage and American individuality, deftly revealing complex cultural exchanges in these immersive, genre-bending short stories.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Indigo Press, Nana Nkweti, Short Stories, Walking on Cowrie Shells

Speaking from the Shadows: Writing Fiction and Chronic Illness

14th March 202214th March 2022  Katy Wimhurst

In her essay, author Katy Wimhurst explores how the experience of chronic illness challenges established (and often ableist) conventions of storytelling, opening up fiction – and indeed language itself – to new, imaginative possibilities.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Fiction, Franz Kafka, John Adair, Katy Wimhurst, Louise Kenward, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Rabih Alemeddine, Short Stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, Sol Worth, Susan Sontag, Through Navajo Eyes, Virginia Woolf

Interview with author Loranne Vella: ‘This idea of a room, of a home, is very important, as the body is the first home’

16th February 202217th February 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie talks to Maltese author and performer Loranne Vella about her collection of short fiction, what will it take for me to leave, the influence of performance on her work, memory as a liberating and imprisoning force, European feminism and her upcoming novel, Marta Marta.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Books, Books in translation, Elizabeth is Missing, Feminism, Jen Calleja, Julia Kristeva, Kat Storace, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Loranne Vella, Malta, Maltese fiction, Maltese Literature, Monique Wittig, My Body's Bodies Editorial, novels, Paul Preciado, Praspar Press, Short Stories, Simone de Beauvoir

Bringing the body to the text in Loranne Vella’s What Will It Take For Me To Leave

14th February 202215th February 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Bodies traverse histories, tap into memories and are saturated with feelings and experiences in Loranne Vella’s superb short fiction collection, What Will It Take For Me To Leave, translated by Kat Storace.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Bodies, Books, Books in translation, Jen Calleja, Kat Storace, Loranne Vella, Maltese fiction, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Praspar Press, short fiction, Short Stories, Translation, What Will It Take For Me To Leave, Zvezdan Reljić

An interview with Gemma Seltzer:’The messiness of friendship is what I like exploring’

23rd November 202115th August 2022  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Shamini Sriskandarajah talks to author Gemma Seltzer about her new short story collection Ways of Living and its themes of female friendship, religion, and the city.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: female friendships, flâneuses, Gemma seltzer, Influx Press, Interview, Judaism, London, Short Stories, Ways of Living, workshops, Write and Shine

Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki – the liminal space between possibility and inevitability

2nd September 20212nd September 2021  Jennifer Brough

The first English-language publication of Izumi Suzuki’s darkly humorous dystopias packs a punky, prescient punch.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Fiction, Izumi Suzuki, Japanese literature, Jennifer Brough, short fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Speculative literature, Surrealism, translated fiction, Translation, Verso, Verso Fiction

Interview with Leanne Radojkovich: ‘I strongly feel that nature grounds our stories and people’

1st September 20211st September 2021  Rym Kechacha

Rym Kechacha talks to award-winning short story writer, Leanne Radojkovich, about the importance of Aotearoa New Zealand’s landscape to her fiction, Independent publishers as the future of literature and the need to re-indigenise writing.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: And Other Stories, First Fox, Hailman, Leanne Radojkovich, Rym Kechacha, short fiction, Short Stories, The Emma Press

Locating the ‘new’ in The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease

15th August 202115th August 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

This exhilarating anthology of short stories challenges us to look beyond the shiny façade of ‘the new’ and to embrace ‘the abject’ – the ambiguous, the old, the distressing parts of ourselves and our society – and to ask what place the abject should have in our culture today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: anthology, Book Review, Comma Press, Georges Bataille, Julia Kristeva, Ra Page, Sarah Eyre, Short Stories, Tales of Modern Unease, the abject, The New Abject

Ways of Living by Gemma Seltzer: powerful and deeply human

28th July 202128th July 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Shamini Sriskandarajah reviews this debut collection of London-based short stories, full of vivid, colourful characters and with a joyfully feminist streak.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Gemma seltzer, Influx Press, London, Short Stories, Ways of Living

Interview with award-winning author Catherine McNamara: ‘I wanted to write about love, in different forms, different lives and different times of our lives too’

26th July 202126th July 2021  Suzannah Ball

Our writer Suzannah Ball talks to award-winning author, Litro editor and mentor, Catherine McNamara about her latest collection of flash fiction, the differences between flash and the short story form, and how travel and migration have influenced her work.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Catherine McNamara, Creative Writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Interview, love, Love Stories for Hectic People, Reflex Press, short fiction, Short Stories, Short Story, The Cartography of Others, writing

Hailman by Leanne Radojkovich

19th July 2021  Rym Kechacha

Leanne Radojkovich’s latest collection of fiction, Hailman, is filled with startling images that linger in the mind and encourage you to excavate its mysterious, dream-like prose, writes our contributor Rym Kechacha.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Fiction, Hailman, Leanne Radojkovich, Rym Kechacha, Short Stories, The Emma Press

Love Stories for Hectic People by Catherine McNamara

14th June 2021  Suzannah Ball

In her award-winning third collection of fiction, Love Stories for Hectic People, Catherine McNamara explores love in its violent, obsessive and erotically complex forms, writes Suzannah Ball.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books, Catherine McNamara, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Italy, love stories, Love Stories for Hectic People, Reflex Press, romance, Short Stories, Unbound Press

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