New Welsh Short Stories

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

A stellar line-up of writing talent includes Stevie Davies, Trezza Azzopardi, Joe Dunthorne, Owen Sheers, Cynan Jones, Deborah Kay Davies and Rachel Trezise. Stories range from the personal to the universal; from the streets of south Wales to the wilder reaches of small town and countryside, from film sets to the limits of time and space.The anthology is the first in a series. It is co-edited by Seren fiction editor Penny Thomas and Francesca Rhydderch, a previous editor of New Welsh Review, whose debut novel The Rice Paper Diaries won the Fiction Prize, Wales Book of the Year 2014.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-03-15
Mått:110 x 178 x 26 mm
Vikt:287 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Poetry Wales Press
ISBN:9781781722343

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Francesca Rhydderch has a BA Joint Honours degree in Modern Languages from Newnham College Cambridge, and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Wales. Between 1997 and 1999 she was Editorial Assistant and subsequently Associate Editor at Planet: The Welsh Internationalist. Following a stint at Gomer Books as Editor of their English-language list, she took up the editorship of New Welsh Review in 2002. In 2008 she left the magazine in order to focus on and develop her writing. She published the Rice Paper Diaries (2013) with Seren (Wales Book of the Year: Fiction 2014) and was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2014 with her story 'The Taxidermist's Daughter'. Penny Thomas has a BA English Language and Literature from Keble College, Oxford. She trained as a journalist and worked for 14 years in regional journalism before moving to Seren where she has been fiction editor since 2006. She has also worked as a freelance editor for publishers including Chicken House, Parthian and Honno Welsh Women's Press, before setting up Firefly Press, a Wales-based children's publishing company in 2013.

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New Welsh Short Stories is an excellent collection that shows the vibrancy of the current crop of Welsh literary talent. With short stories going through something of a golden period, Seren have compiled a selection that shows just how far the form can be taken. This anthology comes highly recommended for short story fans, as well as those keen to try something a bit different. - Bookstrust