DAVID BUTLER finds cruelty in the pages of Katherine Mansfield’s stories: ‘I would argue that Mansfield’s aesthetic is frequently more disquieting, even cruel – in the sense that her acquaintance D. H. Lawrence called Dostoevsky’s talent cruel…’
KJ ORR, winner of the 2016 BBC National Short Story Award, speaks to us about her love of the short story form: ‘Short stories ask the reader to pay attention: I love that. Put another way, they value the reader, the reader’s imagination, engagement and attention. I find this both moving and important – profoundly connective…’
Katherine Orr has coffee with writer Vanessa Gebbie. Listen to the podcast of their conversation.
Join KATHERINE ORR in conversation with writer TOBY LITT. This podcast is exclusively available to THRESHOLDS members and is password protected. Members, see newsletter for details or contact thresholds@chi.ac.uk.
Last weekend, KATHERINE ORR and ALISON MacLEOD went to the Small Wonder Short Story Festival at Charleston House in East Sussex. Read about the festival’s many lively readings and events, and about crossing paths with the Bloomsbury group.
Katherine Orr recommends Daniel Kehlmann’s latest book, Fame.
Katherine Orr admits… I have always felt frustrated by the stock advice to the young writer: write what you know.
In the latest instalment of our Short Story Masterclass series, K. J. Orr talks with DAVID CONSTANTINE about competing narratives, literal metaphors, realisations for a writer and much more…
SHORT STORY MASTERCLASS podcast: Jane Rogers talks with K. J. Orr about writing science, story starting points, and hitting trees with sticks.
