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Tag: short fiction

The Deal: a short story by Laetitia Erskine

5th April 20239th April 2023  Laetitia Erskine

The nuances and complexities of a troubled mother-daughter relationship are beautifully rendered in this short story, adapted from Laetitia Erskine’s novel Women on Women.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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