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Vanessa Gebbie

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Vanessa Gebbie is a novelist, short storyist, editor, writing tutor and occasional poet. Her novel The Coward’s Tale (Bloomsbury) was selected as a Financial Times Book of the Year and Guardian readers’ book of the year.

She is author of two collections: Words from a Glass Bubble - a collection of mainly prize-winning stories - and Storm Warning (Salt Modern Fiction). She is contributing editor of Short Circuit - Guide to the Art of the Short Story (Salt). Her fifth book in as many years is forthcoming later in 2012.

Vanessa's stories have been commissioned by literary journals, the British Council, for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, and are widely anthologised. Married with two grown sons, she lives in Sussex. www.vanessagebbie.com

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The launch of Caroline Davies's 'Convoy'

Convoy is published by Cinnamon Press
Monday, 20 May 2013. Ship: HQS Wellington. Estimated time of launch, nineteen hundred hours. Crew, some twenty or so hardy souls. The Captain, poet Caroline Davies, resplendent in a 1940's dress uniform and hair to match, was on board well before, checking that all was ship-shape. The steward, Simon, having responded with all alacrity to orders - 'Move tha... Read more of this blog post »

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Vanessa Gebbie's Books

Average rating: 4.18 · 335 ratings · 99 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Coward's Tale: A Novel 4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Circuit: A Guide To The Art Of The Short Story 4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Words From A Glass Bubble 4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storm Warning 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coward's Tale 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story. Edited by Vanessa Gebbie 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chris Brazier (Editor), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Contributor), Jhumpa Lahiri (Contributor) 3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 Stories for Pakistan by Robert J. McCarter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Joanne Fox (Contributor), Trevor Belshaw (Contributor) 4.76 of 5 stars 4.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 2 by Sal Coraccio (Editor), Cameron Gray (Illustrator), Lucy A. Snyder (Goodreads Author) 4.86 of 5 stars 4.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jawbreakers by Calum Kerr (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Valerie O'Riordan (Editor), Jenn Ashworth (Contributor) 4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars