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Longlisted
Sunday 20th Jan - it's announced The Dig joins stories by prize-winning authors including Helen Dunmore, Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, and Graham Swift on the longlist for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.
Alongside twelve writers from Britain are Philomena Kearney Byrne and Belinda McKeon from Ireland, the American Claire Vaye Watkins, and Pulitzer Prize winning Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz.
The shortlist will be announced on 24th February. 16 writers down to 6.
Alongside twelve writers from Britain are Philomena Kearney Byrne and Belinda McKeon from Ireland, the American Claire Vaye Watkins, and Pulitzer Prize winning Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz.
The shortlist will be announced on 24th February. 16 writers down to 6.
Shortlisted
Coinciding with Swansea's cup win and a good victory for Wales in Italy, I landed on the shortlist of the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Junot Diaz, Mark Haddon, Toby Litt, Ali Smith, Sarah Hall and myself. An extraordinary list to be on.
You can read the 6 shortlisted stories by downloading the kindle collection here, and vote for you favourite here.
You can read the 6 shortlisted stories by downloading the kindle collection here, and vote for you favourite here.
Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2013
Congratulations to Junot Diaz who won.
The six shortlisted stories can be read here: Six Shorts - The finalists for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
A great experience and a great set of writers to be on the same list as.
On Sunday they announce the winner of the readers' vote.
The six shortlisted stories can be read here: Six Shorts - The finalists for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
A great experience and a great set of writers to be on the same list as.
On Sunday they announce the winner of the readers' vote.
Short pieces
At the beginning of June I looked over the final proof pages of "The Dig", the next novel.
This week the jacket proofs came in.
Official publication: January 16th, 2014.
Meanwhile, if you missed them, here's some links to short pieces.
Aberarth - a short story about erosion.
There are also appurtenant notes and sketches to the story here.
Milk - micro fiction in The Lampeter Review
This week the jacket proofs came in.
Official publication: January 16th, 2014.
Meanwhile, if you missed them, here's some links to short pieces.
Aberarth - a short story about erosion.
There are also appurtenant notes and sketches to the story here.
Milk - micro fiction in The Lampeter Review
The Dig
Whenever I talk to reading groups, audiences, people are amazed how long it takes for a book to go from "being written" to the shelf of a shop.
Well. Not long to go. THE DIG is now available to pre-order, with an official publication date 16th January '14.
While you're waiting, I strongly suggest you read A MEAL IN WINTER - a quiet, resounding book I wish I could read again for the first time.
Well. Not long to go. THE DIG is now available to pre-order, with an official publication date 16th January '14.
While you're waiting, I strongly suggest you read A MEAL IN WINTER - a quiet, resounding book I wish I could read again for the first time.
The Dig now available
"Tense, tough and haunting" (Joe Dunthorne) and "winningly sparse" (Literary Review), The Dig tells the story of a farmer struggling through lambing time and his collision with a badger baiter.
Prize Win and Backlist Relaunch
Alongside seven other books, THE DIG was chosen as one of this year's Jerwood Fiction Uncovered winners.
It's great company to be keeping, with writers including Naomi Wood, Gerard Woodward and Evie Wyld on the list. I'm looking forward to a summer reading through the fellow winners.
The prize is great timing, as Granta Books, working alongside Parthian, have reissued the backlist with stunning new covers from designer Jenny Griggs.
It's great company to be keeping, with writers including Naomi Wood, Gerard Woodward and Evie Wyld on the list. I'm looking forward to a summer reading through the fellow winners.
The prize is great timing, as Granta Books, working alongside Parthian, have reissued the backlist with stunning new covers from designer Jenny Griggs.
Dig in the U.S. and beyond
Following on from a quite humbling home reaction to THE DIG over the last year,
Coffee House Press
recently launched the novel Stateside.
I'll be in New York and Washington in early May for events.
The U.S. edition follows recently published translations in Spanish:
.. and German:
I'll be in New York and Washington in early May for events.
The U.S. edition follows recently published translations in Spanish:
.. and German:
