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Title
The BBC national short story award 2011

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Comma Press

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20120201

Author
Alison Macleod, Jon McGregor, M. J. Hyland, Sue MacGregor

Description

Bringing together some of Britain's most talented and inventive authors of short fiction, this anthology is a compilation of the top five entries short-listed for the BBC National Short Story Award. Themes of desire, envy, and disconnection provide recurring motifs for these storiesthe extremes that love can endure and what happens when love is not enough. A testament to the high quality of short story writing today, this collection will interest avid readers as well as creative writing and literature students.

M. J. Hyland is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Manchester and the author of several books, including Carry Me Down, How the Light Gets In, and This Is How. She is the recipient of the Encore and Hawthornden prizes, and her work is regularly featured in publications such as the Financial Times, the London Review of Books, and the Irish Independent. Alison MacLeod is a part-time lecturer at the University of Chichester and the author of The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels. She is the recipient of the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Prize for Short Fiction and her work has been widely featured, including in London Magazine, Prospect, and in the anthology The New Uncanny. Jon McGregor is an author of novels that include Even the Dogs and So Many Ways to Begin. He has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize and his short stories have been published in such literary magazines as Granta. K. J. Orr is an award-winning writer who has been short-listed for awards that include the London Writers' Prize. She was included in the anthology Cheque Enclosed. D. W. Wilson is a writer and the author of the short story collection Once You Break a Knuckle. He is the recipient of the University of East Anglia's inaugural Man Booker Prize Scholarship. Sue MacGregor is a writer and a longtime broadcaster with the BBC, for which she was named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Type
BOOK

Keyword Index
Short stories, English.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
118

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