Best British Short Stories 2017

ISBN-13: 9781784631123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str.

Jay Barnett;Peter Bradshaw;Rosalind Brown

Opis

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.

Recenzje

For those new to short stories, the quality and breadth of what is being showcased here, will not easily be bettered. Moreover, the experiential difference that contemporary short stories offer, when compared to novel reading - the unique register they can strike - makes this collection all the more valuable.

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Spis treści

• Nicholas Royle - Introduction
• Courttia Newland - Reversible
• Rosalind Brown - General Impression of Size and Shape
• Giselle Leeb - As You Follow
• Jay Barnett - Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Andrew Michael Hurley - While the Nightjar Sleeps
• Krishan Coupland - The Sea in Me
• Vesna Main - Safe
• Sophie Wellstood - The First Hard Rain
• Françoise Harvey - Never Thought He'd Go
• Peter Bradshaw - Reunion
• Laura Pocock - The Dark Instruments
• Irenosen Okojie - Filamo
• Lara Williams - Treats
• Deirdre Shanahan - The Wind Calling
• David Rose - Ariel
• Claire Dean - Is-and
• Eliot North - This Skin Doesn't Fit Me Any More
• James Kelman - Words and Things to Sip
• Niven Govinden - Waves
• Daisy Johnson - Language
• Contributors' Biographies
• Acknowledgements

O autorze

Nicholas Royle has published four collections of short fiction: Mortality (Serpent's Tail), Ornithology (Confingo Publishing), The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories (Swan River Press) and London Gothic (Confingo Publishing). He is also the author of seven novels, most recently First Novel (Vintage), and a collaboration with artist David Gledhill, In Camera (Negative Press London). He has edited more than two dozen anthologies, including eleven earlier volumes of Best British Short Stories. He runs Nightjar Press, which publishes original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks. His most recent book is White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (Salt Publishing) and forthcoming is another short story collection, Manchester Uncanny (Confingo Publishing).

Jay Barnett grew up in Macclesfield, Cheshire. He is now based in London, where he completed his Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck. For a decade he has worked in the post room of an investment bank. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and has appeared in Hamish Hamilton's Five Dials magazine, in Birkbeck's Mechanics Institute Review and in Jawbreakers, the first National Flash-Fiction Day anthology.

Peter Bradshaw is an author and journalist and has been chief film critic for the Guardian since 1999. He has published three novels, Lucky Baby Jesus (1999), Dr Sweet and His Daughter (2003) and Night of Triumph (2013). He has also written and performed the Radio 4 serial For One Horrible Moment and the Sky TV situation comedy Baddiel's Syndrome. He is married with a son and lives in London.

Rosalind Brown was born in 1987 and grew up in Cambridge. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA, and now lives and works in Norwich.

Krishan Coupland's stories and poems have been published in Ambit, Aesthetica, Brittle Star, Fractured West and Litro. His story 'Days Necrotic' was joint winner of the Manchester Fiction Prize 2011; he has also won the Bare Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and Storgy short story competition. His work has also been highly commended in the Harper's Bazaar short story competition, selected for the Best of the Net Anthology, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Claire Dean's short stories have been published in The Best British Short Stories 2011 and 2014, as well as in Still, Shadows & Tall Trees, Patricide, A cappella Zoo and as chapbooks by Nightjar Press. Her first collection, The Museum of Shadows and Reflections (Unsettling Wonder), with illustrations by Laura Rae, was published in 2016. She lives in Lancashire with her two young sons. Two new stories are forthcoming from Nightjar Press in 2017.

Niven Govinden is the author of four novels, most recently All the Days and Nights, longlisted for the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize. Black Bread, White Beer was selected as one of the Fiction Uncovered titles in 2013. His second novel, Graffiti My Soul, is to be filmed. His short stories have been published internationally and his novels have been translated into numerous languages.

Françoise Harvey has had work published in Loss Lit, Bare Fiction, Synaesthesia Magazine and Litro, as well as in the anthologies The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016 and the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 9. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and is one of the founders of short-story collective Literary Salmon.

Andrew Michael Hurley is the author of two short story collections, Cages and The Unusual Death of Julie Christie. His first novel, The Loney, was originally published in 2014 by Tartarus Press and then by John Murray a year later, after which it won the 2015 Costa First Novel award and the 2016 British Book Industry award for Debut Novel and Book of the Year. He lives in Lancashire with his family and teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University's Manchester Writing School. His second novel, Devil's Day, will be published by John Murray in autumn 2017.

Daisy Johnson was born in 1990 and currently lives in Oxford. Her short fiction has appeared in the Boston Review and the Warwick Review, among others. In 2014, she was the recipient of the AM Heath prize. Fen is her first collection of stories. Her debut novel will be published by Jonathan Cape in 2018.