Head Land: 10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize

by Rodge Glass (editor)

Marking its tenth anniversary, this is a lavishly produced anthology of selected stories from winners and shortlisted authors from the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, now the only dedicated literary award for story collections in the UK. It features a stellar list of contributors and some of the very best practitioners of the form working today. Contributors include Kevin Barry, Colm ToIbIn, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman, Kirsty Gunn, Tessa Hadley, Sarah Hall, Zoe Lambert, Claire Keegan, Jon McGregor, Nicholas Royle, Helen Simpson, amongst others

Kevin Barry
Chris Beckett
Carys Bray
John Burnside
Madeline D'Arcy
Carys Davies
Jeremy Dyson
Neil Gaiman
Jessie Greengrass
Kirsty Gunn
Tessa Hadley
Sarah Hall
Claire Keegan
A.L. Kennedy
Zoe Lambert
Jon McGregor
Adam Marek
China Miéville
Graham Mort
Nicholas Royle
Robert Shearman
Helen Simpson
Ali Smith
Colm Tóibín
Rachel Trezise
Tom Vowler
Tamar Yellin

336 pages, Paperback

First published September 22, 2016

About the author

Rodge Glass is the author of the novels No Fireworks (Faber, 2005) and Hope for Newborns (Faber, 2008), as well as Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (Bloomsbury, 2008), which received a Somerset Maugham Award in 2009. Recently, he was co-author of the graphic novel Dougie’s War: A Soldier’s Story (Freight, 2010), which was nominated for several awards. He is currently a Programme Leader in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, and was Associate Editor at Freight Books. His novel, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, was published in April 2012 by the multi-award winning Tindal Street Press, then as a paperback by Serpent’s Tail, and it appeared as Voglio la testa di Ryan Giggs in April 2013 (66thand2nd, Roma). His latest book, LoveSexTravelMusik, was published by Freight Books in April 2013 and was nominated for the International Frank O’Connor Award. His fiction has been published in Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Danish and Italian.
(from http://rodgeglass.com/ )

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[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

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