Posts tagged 'Short stories'
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A likely story
Posted 22 March 2013 We talk to the judges of The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2013 about the shortlist on the morning of the winner announcement. Read 'A likely story ' -
Short lists of short stories by a shortlist
Posted 19 March 2013 We talk to the shortlisted authors of The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2013 ahead of this Friday's winner announcement. Read 'Short lists of short stories by...' -
On music as a food of love, or something
Posted 28 November 2012 Nikesh gets lost in music as he writes about writing in silence Read 'On music as a food of...' -
Jennifer Egan talks about 'Black Box'
Posted 19 October 2012 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan has written some cutting edge fiction. Her recent experiment, to use Twitter to create a fictional world as part of a science fiction project... Read 'Jennifer Egan talks about 'Black Box'' -
Our favourite short story writers
Posted 2 October 2012 The winner of the BBC International Short Story Award 2012 is announced tonight, live on BBC Radio 4's Front Row. Nikesh asked the shortlisted authors to tell him who their... Read 'Our favourite short story writers ' -
'A short story must have a single mood and...
Posted 26 September 2012 Nikesh asks this year's BBC International Short Story Award shortlist what they thought about all this and whether they agreed with the above quote by Edgar Allan Poe and whether... Read ''A short story must have a...' -
'Other Words for Funny': Will Self, Kafka, and the...
Posted 26 July 2012 Will Self, not for the first time in his long and storied career, is not amused. He's at City University, talking about Kafka's Metamorphosis, and poor Gregor Samsa running all... Read ''Other Words for Funny': Will Self,...' -
An interview with Kevin Barry
Posted 1 April 2012 Author and Booktrust web editor Nikesh Shukla caught up with Kevin Barry, author and winner of The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012. They found a pub... Read 'An interview with Kevin Barry ' -
Who shot the strawberry picker?
Posted 12 March 2012 To celebrate this year's Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, we have assembled top short story writers to construct a spontaneous short story, like a game of consequences.... Read 'Who shot the strawberry picker? ' -
Books of the year 2011
Posted 16 December 2011 I've been trying to do a filtered keyword search in my brain for the overriding themes affecting novelists in 2011 and I'm coming up with nothing. For all the snobbery... Read 'Books of the year 2011 '
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