Tag Archives: short fiction
Interviews
‘The deep opening and the revelation of the human heart’: an interview with Diane Williams
A.S. Patric: Jonathan Franzen has described you as a hero of the avant-garde. How do you feel about a very popular writer who has had colossal mainstream success making this statement about you and your work? Diane Williams: I am honored to have such a stirring, elegant … Read more
Column: Books and Writing
Tweet your serial
If reading were food, the serialised novel would be the degustation menu. Tantalising chunks of story meted out piece by piece. That experience doesn’t happen all that often today – at least, not away from the TV and computer screen. Sure, we wait, achingly, for the latest … Read more
Reviews
Success within constraints? Small Wonder, Linda Godfrey and Julie Chevalier (eds)
It is sometimes the case that language, when restricted, blossoms. The French writers and mathematicians in the 1960s Oulipo group made ‘constrained writing’ work for them, and so do some of the writers in Small Wonder. Eight hundred words or less was the challenge given to writers, … Read more
Podcast
Podcast: Steven Amsterdam’s What the Family Needed
Steven Amsterdam is the author of acclaimed novel Things We Didn’t See Coming, and his new book, What the Family Needed, has been called ‘a wonderfully fresh perspective on families’, as well as ‘a probing exploration of familial love and forbearance’. In What the Family Needed, members … Read more
Books
The Long and the Short of It: Affirm Press and short fiction
Last year my company, Affirm Press, an emerging publishing company with more ideals than commercial sense, embarked on an initiative called Long Story Shorts. It was a commitment to publish six individual collections of stories by new and emerging writers, the last of which – Two Steps … Read more
Podcast
Zoe Dattner, co-founder and Creative Director of Sleepers Publishing
Back in 2005, the first book published by Sleepers Publishing was the first ever Sleepers Almanac, a collection of short fiction by writers including Cate Kennedy and Adam Ford. Now, in 2010, the sixth Sleepers Almanac has arrived – not only in book form, but also as … Read more
