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Best British Short Stories 2023

Beschreibung

Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.

Best British Short Stories 2023 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2022 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.

This new anthology contains stories by Alinah Azadeh, David Bevan, AK Blakemore, Gabriel Flynn, Jim Gibson, Lydia Gill, Miles Greenwood, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Philip Jennings, Sharon Kivland, Alison Moore, Georgina Parfitt, Gareth E Rees, Leone Ross, John Saul, DJ Taylor, Briony Thompson, Matthew Turner, Mark Valentine and David Wheldon.

Autor

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).

Alinah Azadeh is a British-Iranian writer, visual artist, performer and cultural activist. She has had short stories, poetry and articles published and broadcast. She is the inaugural writer-in-residence at Seven Sisters Country Park and Sussex Heritage Coast, UK, for South Downs National Park, leading 'We See You Now', a decolonial literature and landscape project supported by Arts Council England, which includes the podcast, "The Colour of Chalk".

David Bevan is a 2021 graduate of the Manchester Writing School's Creative Writing MA programme. 'The Bull' is one of two stories first published by Nightjar Press.

Produktdetails

• Best British Short Stories
• Verlag: Salt / Salt Publishing Limited
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 125mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781784632991
• ISBN-10: 1784632996
• Artikelnr.: 68272672