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The Weight of the Earth and the Lightness of the Human Heart, from Linda Cracknell’s collection The Searching Glance is an afternoon reading on BBC Radio 4 this Friday 4th July at 3.30pm. Read more

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The ‘quietness’ of the short story genre means less attention for writers on the whole, so the most obvious first question to ask is: why write short stories, as they’re a difficult genre to publish and sell?Although I’ve written in other forms, the short story’s my first love and choosing what I write isn’t generally [...]

The West Cork Literary Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, with a wonderful lineup of novelists, poets short fiction writers, workshops, readings, competitions, even a ‘literary dating agency’!

The short story is celebrated particularly beautifully, with free story readings three times a day in different venues.

Vanessa G is reading on Thursday 10th July at [...]

Carys Davies will be reading from her short story collection, Some New Ambush, at Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge at 6.30pm on Tuesday, 17th June.

Come along to meet Carys and to hear Andre Mangeot read from his forthcoming collection of short stories, A Little Javanese, which will be launched on the night.

RSVP: suzanne.jones@heffers.co.uk

Melissa Lee Houghton reviews Balancing on the Edge of the World by Elizabeth Baines for Issue 8 of The Short Review:
Frank, original prose underpins all the stories and the central motif, power, in Balancing… This is a stunning debut collection by a writer whose prose deliberates its characters with a keen sense of literary [...]

William Guy, author of The I Love You Book, has been interviewed by the Lincolnshire Echo on his longlisting for the Frank O’Connor Prize. You can read the interview in full here.

Ride the WordWednesday 25th June 2008 7.30 – 9.00 pm, hosted by Ernie Burns and Vincent De SouzaBorders 203-207 Oxford Street, London W1D 2LE

Sascha Akhtar – Salt poetRichard Bardsley – Salt short story writerVincent De Souza – Salt poetJay Merill – Salt short story writerAndrew Syers – dramatist