We’ve five free copies of Vanessa Gebbie’s new textbook Short Circuit to give away.
Short Circuit is the first textbook written by prize-winning writers for students and more experienced practitioners of the short story. The 288 page guide brings together twenty-four specially-commissioned essays from well-published short story writers who are also prize winners of the toughest short story competitions in the English language, including five essays from winners of The Bridport Prize. There are interviews with Clare Wigfall — winner of The National Short Story Award — and with Tobias Hill whose short story collection won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award.
To enter the competition answer the three following questions:
- Who is this?
- Which story begins “Saturday afternoon she drove to the bakery in the shopping center.”
- Which story begins “Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.”
We’ll choose five winners from among the correct entries. Email your responses with the subject line “Short Circuit Competition” to: competitions@saltpublishing.com
Offer expires 14th November 2009
And the answers are:
1. Anton Chekhov
2. “A Small Good Thing” by Raymond Carver
3. The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) by Franz Kafka
And the winners are:
Jenny Beattie
Emily Dening
Marko Fong
Andie Lewenstein
Sallie Tams
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