Best (British) Short Stories 2017

Royle, Nicholas (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1784631124 / ISBN 13: 9781784631123

Editore: Salt Publishing, 2017

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• Titolo: Best (British) Short Stories 2017
• Editore: Salt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1784631124
• ISBN 13: 9781784631123
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year.

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor’s brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.

Featuring stories by Jay Barnett, Peter Bradshaw, Rosalind Brown, Krishan Coupland, Claire Dean, Niven Govinden, Françoise Harvey, Andrew Michael Hurley, Daisy Johnson, James Kelman, Giselle Leeb, Courttia Newland, Vesna Main, Eliot North, Irenosen Okojie, Laura Pocock, David Rose, Deirdre Shanahan, Sophie Wellstood and Lara Williams.

Informazioni sugli autori

Nicholas Royle is the author of five short story collections – Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy, London Gothic and Manchester Uncanny – and seven novels, most recently First Novel. He has edited thirty anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories for Salt, who published his books-about-books, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector and Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf. In 2009 he founded Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories in chapbook format. Forthcoming, from Confingo Publishing, is Paris Fantastique, and Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand Books (Salt).

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.