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Tag: Fiction

The Dinner Party Reloaded 5: The Memoirists & Fiction Writers

24th November 202227th November 2022  Susanna Crossman

For her fifth dinner party, author and host Susanna Crossman talks to writers Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Lily Dunn and Shamini Sriskandarajah about eliding the barriers between fiction and non-fiction, the ethics of (memoir) writing, diverse ways of reading via Lydia Davis and whether to “glam up” or dress down when sitting down to write.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Alan Bennett, Bending genre, cartharsis, creative non-fiction, David Shields, Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Fiction, Lily Dunn, Lydia Davis, Margot Slinger, Nicole Walker, non-fiction, Polari First Book Prize, Reading, Shamini Sriskandarajah, Susanna Crossman, The Dinner Party, The Dinner Party Reloaded

Carbis Bay and other short fiction by Sascha Akhtar

31st August 20228th September 2022  Sascha Akhtar

Multiple voices haunt pain-wracked bodies and trauma-stored forms amid seaweed-strewn spaces in Sascha Akhtar’s beguiling short fiction.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Bodies, Fiction, Flash Fiction, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Our Body's Bodies, Sascha Akhtar

An excerpt from The Storyteller by Faiqa Mansab

29th August 202229th August 2022  Faiqa Mansab

In this delicious excerpt from her upcoming novel – a work about mother-daughter relationships, storytelling, women and murder – Faiqa Mansab has her heroine, feminist scholar Layla, discuss the role of food in myths and rituals whilst eating freshly cooked biryani with friends and family.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bible, Faiqa Mansab, fairy tales, Fiction, Food, Mythology, Novel, preview, Quran, religion, Sufism

The Composition of Maggie Chine by Paula Coston

18th August 2022  Paula Coston

In this gorgeously vivid and whiplash smart short story, Paula Coston plunges us into the world and bodily experiences of Maggie Chine, a 70-year-old woman who continues to live life to its fullest.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bodies, Fiction, My Body's Bodies Editorial, older women, Paula Coston, short fiction, Short Story

Ten Facts About Teddy Bears: a short story by Laetitia Erskine

12th July 202212th July 2022  Laetitia Erskine

A childhood teddy bear is the lens through which romantic and familial relationships are explored, in this darkly comic and tender short story by Laetitia Erskine.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Divorce, Fiction, short fiction, Short Story, Teddy Bears

Miscarry by Kerry Byrne

23rd June 202223rd June 2022  Kerry Byrne

A recurring dream featuring supermarket cheese aisles and knitting nurses circles around the same persistent question and painful realisation in Kerry Byrne’s tautly written and moving short fiction, ‘Miscarry’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Kerry Byrne, Miscarriage, My Body's Bodies Editorial, pregnancy

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

20th June 202223rd June 2022  Rebecca Clark

In her captivating novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield tenderly and credibly depicts the pain of absence, loss and transformation often experienced in romantic relationships.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books, Fiction, Gothic Fiction, Julia Armfield, Novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, Rebecca Clark, Salt Slow

Emanance by Ramya Jegatheesan

28th March 202228th March 2022  Ramya Jegatheesan

A young woman slowly unravels during lockdown when compulsively chronicling her own body’s deterioration in Ramya Jegatheesan’s stunning short story, ‘Emanance’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bodies, eating disorders, Fiction, Lockdown, My Body's Bodies Editorial, obsessive compulsive disorder, Pandemic, Ramya Jegatheesan, short fiction

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

Dare You: a short story by Laetitia Erskine

5th September 2021  Laetitia Erskine

In this powerful short story, an artist walks on the marshes near her home, treading a dangerous line between sea and land, haunted by her own demons and her memories of a drowned friend.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Fiction, Laetitia Erskine, short fiction, Short Story

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

Assembly by Natasha Brown

25th August 202125th August 2021  Lisa Goodrum

Natasha Brown’s powerful, deftly written debut explodes neoliberal myths of meritocratic success and reveals the stark reality faced by young Black women when attempting to make it to the top.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Assembly, debut, Fiction, Lisa Goodrum, Natasha Brown, Novel, Review

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