Join in our celebration of the short story on the shortest night of the year at the following events in Scotland.
Glasgow
‘Mother Courage: Stories of Women and War’ at Glasgow Women’s Library
Thursday 21 June. 5.30pm. Free event. Glasgow Women’s Library, 15 Berkeley Street, Glasgow, G3 7BW
As part of Scottish Refugee Week and International Short Story Day, Zoe Lambert and Michelle Green will be appearing at Glasgow Women’s Library for the event ‘Mother Courage: Stories of Women and War’.
Zoe Lambert will be reading and discussing her collection The War Tour with Manchester based writer Michelle Green,
whose debut collection Jebel Marra will be published by Comma in 2013.
Contact Glasgow Women’s Library on 0141 248 9969 or email info@womenslibrary.org.uk.
Story Reading at Mono Café
7pm. Free event. Mono, 12 Kings Court, Glasgow, G1 5RB
Far up north, Comma partner up with Scottish-based publishers, Cargo in a short story reading event featuring
Manchester-based writer Annie Clarkson, and Scottish authors Ewan Morrison, Alan Bissett and Allan Wilson. With a musical performance (tbc).
Contact the venue on 0141 553 2400 or visit Mono Café
For more info, email jim.hinks@commapress.co.uk or Mark Buckland at mark@cargopublishing.com.
In association with Comma Press and Cargo Press (Glasgow)
UK-Wide
Release of The Best British Short Stories 2012 anthology, published by Salt
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor’s brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume. Neither genre nor Granta shall be overlooked in the search for the very best new short fiction.
Included in this year’s anthology are stories by Emma Unsworth, HP Tinker, Michael Marshall Smith, Dan Powell, Julian Gough, Stuart Evers, Stella Duffy, Socrates Adams-Florou, Jonathan Trigell, Will Self, Jaki McCarrick, Robert Shearman, Alison MacLeod, Jo Lloyd, Neil Campbell, Joel Lane, Ramsey Campbell, Jeanette Winterson, Jon McGregor and AK Benedict.
Edited by Nicholas Royle, published by Salt.
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