Interviews: September 2011

D W Wilson was this week announced the youngest ever winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2011 for his story 'The Dead Roads'.

The story is a classic North American road trip story with a difference. Three already seems like company as two old school buddies try to win the affections of a free-spirited girl; when a mysterious man enters the picture, things become even tenser.

We spoke to the 26-year-old Canadian the day after his win to get the skinny on this young hot talent.

Self-professed author of 'fairy tales' Erin Morgenstern has written a brilliant first novel. The Night Circus is bewitching, magical, thrilling and intense - a wonderful period piece about two rival magicians locked in a competition neither of them can abandon despite their feelings for each other.