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Shortlist for BBC International Short Story Award announced
September 17th, 2012
It’s a good year for Deborah Levy. Not only is her novel Swimming Home on the shortlist for the Man Booker prize, but her story “Black Vodka” has been shortlisted for the £15,000 BBC International Short Story Prize. Also on the list for the 2012 prize are “The iHole” by Julian Gough, who won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2007, and “Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes” by M J Hyland, who was shortlisted last year.
To mark the Olympic year, the award has extended its remit to writers from across the globe, and the shortlist does have an international flavour: “The Goose Father” by Krys Lee (South Korea / United States); “East of the West” by Miroslav Penkov (born in Bulgaria, now living in the United States); “In the Basement” by Adam Ross (United States); “Before He Left the Family” by Carrie Tiffany (Australia), and “A Lovely and Terrible” by Chris Wormersley (Australia). The rest of the shortlist is: “Escape Routes” by Lucy Caldwell; and “Sanctuary” by Henrietta Rose-Innes.
The winning author, to be announced on October 2 live on Front Row, will receive £15,000, the runner-up £2,500 and the eight other shortlisted authors £250 each.
The stories will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm from Monday 17th onwards. Each story will become available on the day of broadcast as a free download available for two weeks. Then it will be available as a commercial audiobook via AudioGo. The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 Anthology, published by Comma Press, is available at all good bookshops and the Comma Press store from Monday, as well as in Kindle format.
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Tags: "Before He Left the Family", "East of the West", "In the Basement", "Sanctuary", "The Goose Father", Adam Ross, and "A Lovely and Terrible" by Chris Wormersley (Australia). The rest of the shortlist is: "Escape Routes", BBC international short story award 2012, Carrie Tiffany, Deboarah Levy, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Julian Gough, Krys Lee, Lucy Caldwell, M J Hyland, Miroslav Penkov, Olympic year, shortlist, Swimming Home | 
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Support the ’26 Treasures’ Book from Unbound
January 26th, 2012
26 is a network of professional writers who care about words (the name 26 stands for the 26 letters of the alphabet).
In 2010, they persuaded London’s Victoria & Albert museum to choose 26 objects from its British Galleries and randomly assigned them to 26 writers. Each person wrote exactly 62 words – 26 in reflection – in response to the object. In 2011, 26 took the idea to the National Library of Wales, the Ulster Museum and the National Museum of Scotland, where writers were let loose on objects as disparate as a medieval illuminated book, a beggar’s badge and a 16th century Scottish guillotine. Now they have produced a book of the results, including contributions from Lucy Caldwell, Gillian Clarke, Alexander McCall Smith, Paul Muldoon, Bernard McLaverty and Maura Dooley.
But the book will only be produced if enough people sign up – in advance – to buy a copy, because 26 have teamed up with the innovative startup Unbound Books and this is the way Unbound runs things. 26 has 35 days to gather enough support to make the book happen. Click here to visit 26 Objects on the the Unbound site and buy a piece of the future (and the past).