Silent Snow, Secret Snow
DORA D’AGOSTINO recommends ‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’ by Conrad Aiken, a story about ‘Paul Hasleman, a boy who thinks, dreams and wishes for snow until it becomes an obsession…’
Whoever Holds the Rattle Tells the Tale
Ahead of International Short Story Day, and to celebrate the publication of Rattle Tales 2, ERINNA METTLER talks to us about how Rattle Tales has grown in the last two years and where their short story performances have led this Brighton-based co-operative.
The Devastating Boys
‘Think Brief Encounter: tweed; the Boots Book Lending service (Taylor actually worked in one); tea at the Lyons’ Corner House; children in matching dressing gowns, hair brushed, coming down to kiss their parents goodnight…’ ALISON FISHER introduces us to the short stories of Elizabeth Taylor, writer.
Where do you want to go today?
‘The idea’s quite simple: short stories set in cities across the world, which you can listen to, or read in eBook form…’ JIM HINKS, Digital Editor at Comma Press, tells us how the Gimbal short story app arrived on our phones.
Taking Pictures
ALEX RUCZAJ climbs inside Anne Enright’s short story collection Taking Pictures: ‘Whenever I panicked that my stories weren’t about very much at all, it gave me permission to write boldly about ordinary things…’
Baby Shoes
‘For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.’ CHLOE DALTON takes a closer look at one of the shortest stories ever written…
How to Read Lorrie Moore
TRACY MAYLATH guides us through the second-person narratives of Lorrie Moore’s Self-Help: ‘Everyone speaks in ‘yous’: ‘you feel’ when they mean ‘I felt’, ‘you know’ when they mean ‘I want you to understand me’. Perhaps that’s why we find it irritating in literature…’
We Recommend Adam Marek
In her essay, shortlisted for the 2013 THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition, CARYS BRAY recommends the words of Adam Marek: ‘sometimes only outright surrealism can do justice to the merciless strangeness of reality.’
Competition Winner
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition…
2013 International Feature Writing Competition Shortlist
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.