published collections

Edge Hill Short Story Prize – longlist announced

April 11th, 2011

The Short Review has news of the Edge Hill Prize – the UK’s only literary award for published collections of short stories. Titles on the longlist reveal an intriguing mix of major publishers such as Penguin, Random House and Bloomsbury, and very small independents like Tindal Street, Impress Books and Salt (the latter has just been told it has lost its Arts Council funding). The shortlist will be announced in May. Click on any of the titles in orange to go to the Short Review website for the review of that particular book.

Edge Hill Longlist:

Martin Bax – Memoirs of a Gone World (Salt Publishing).
Alan Beard – You Don’t Have to Say (Tindal Street Press).
Peter Bromley – Sky Light and Other Stories (Biscuit).
Jo Cannon – Insignificant Gestures (Pewter Rose Press).
Roshi Fernando – Homesick (Impress Books).
David Gaffney – The Half-life of Songs (Salt Publishing).
Vanessa Gebbie – Storm Warning, Echoes of Conflict (Salt Publishing).review coming soon
James Kelman – If it is Your Life (Penguin).
Andre Mangeot – True North (Salt Publishing). review coming soon
Jay Merill – God of the Pigeons (Salt Publishing).
Magnus Mills – Screwtop Thompson (Bloomsbury).
Graham Mort – Touch (Seren).
Nik Perring – Not So Perfect (Roast Books).
Susannah Rickards – Hot Kitchen Snow (Salt Publishing). review coming soon
Michele Roberts – Mud, Stories and Sex and Love (Virago).
Polly Samson – Perfect Lives (Virago). review coming soon
Helen Simpson – Inflight Entertainment (Random House).
Fiona Thackeray – The Secret’s in the Folding (Pewter Rose Press).
Tom Vowler – The Method and Other Stories (Salt Publishing).
Susie Wild – The Art of Contraception (Parthian).