DAN POWELL, runner-up in the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition, recommends Stig Dagerman’s short story collection The Games of Night: ‘Sometimes at night, running from the shadows of his own loneliness, Stig Dagerman had a game he would play…’
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition…
Drawing up the longlist from all the entries was not easy. Narrowing it down to six shortlisted pieces was harder still… The results are in for the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition SHORTLIST.
‘Great short stories linger on in the minds of readers like old photographs…’ CARLOTTA EDEN recommends Jane Rogers’ debut collection Hitting Trees with Sticks.
Over the past few weeks, the team of THRESHOLDS judges has been busy reading and re-reading the entries, debating their merits and falling for their charms. Today, we bring you…. The 2013 THRESHOLDS Features Award longlist.
STORY: We are delighted to bring you ‘The Peacock and the Angel’ from Pakistani writer AAMER HUSSEIN. ‘I was watering flowerbeds in the garden when my husband came through the gate and said: “You’ll have to be strong. Your friend…” He didn’t need to tell me whom he was talking about.’
JEANLOUP PRANCHERE recommends Black Vodka: ‘I have always thought of myself as lost property, someone waiting to be claimed,’ confesses the main character in the title story of Deborah Levy’s new collection…
G.F. PHILLIPS take us through the testing times of Franz Kafka’s story ‘Metamorphosis’: ‘…the central character is immediately faced with a sudden and overwhelming predicament of identity – and what a predicament…’
‘The whole point of fiction should be to allow the reader to experience life from inside different people’s skins’. MILES SALTER interviews Michel Faber and considers the many worlds of his fiction.
‘After reading just one story, ‘Hollow’, Andre Dubus wrote: ‘I wish someone could have saved him’. Joyce Carol Oates compared him to Hemingway; Jayne Anne Phillips – a fellow West Virginian – to the Joyce of Dubliners…’ In this Author Profile, SEAN MARTIN shows us the brief writing life of Breece D’J Pancake.
