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2012 ShortStoryVille Line Up Announced
Written by joe melia Monday, 28 May 2012
We're delighted to announce the line up for this year's ShortStoryVille - an exciting day-long event celebrating the dynamic world of the short story. It takes place at Arnolfini arts centre in Bristol on Saturday July 14th.
Tickets can be purchased from the Arnolfini box office : phone 0117 9172300 or visit www.arnolfini.org.uk
One of the many highlights of the day will be some stunningly original work from pupils at 3 Bristol schools. Media students from Fairfield, Henbury and Redland Green schools have created animated responses to Ian Burton’s short story ‘The Bovine Histories’ first published in last year’s Bristol Short Story Prize anthology. The films will be shown from 12.00pm throughout the day in Arnolfini’s Dark Studio. (free)
In Arnolfini’s Light Studio, Art students from Henbury School will exhibit original mixed media prints inspired by Joanna Campbell’s short story ‘Struthio Camelus’ published in our Volume 3 anthology in 2010. (free)
The short story action downstairs in Arnolfini’s cinema begins at 12.00 pm with more work from some Bristol students. A group of students at Fairfield School have been writing their own short stories under the guidance and inspiration of one of the U.K.'s finest short story writers, Tania Hershman, author of the celebrated collections ‘The White Road and Other Stories’ (Salt) and ‘My Mother Was An Upright Piano’ recently published by Tangent Books and longlisted for this year’s Frank O’Connor Prize. Tania will introduce the students and their stories and also read some of her own. Free but ticketed
At 1.30 in the cinema the writer critic and broadcaster, Bidisha, chairs a discussion on the massive impact of Angela Carter’s trail-blazing 1979 short story collection ‘The Bloody Chamber’. It’s 20 years since Angela Carter died but her influence, particularly in short stories continues to grow. Bidisha is joined by Dr Marie Mulvey-Roberts from the English Department at the University of the West of England and 2 brilliant writers destined for great things: Cassandra Parkin (winner of the 2011 Scott Prize) and Kirsty Logan both of whom cite Angela Carter as a major influence on their work. Tickets £4
3.30- 4.30 (cinema) What does the explosion in digital short story publishing mean for writers and readers? Writer and Associate Professor in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago, Patricia McNair, chairs a discussion on the growth of digital short story publishing with a panel of cutting edge publishers - Ra Page of short story powerhouse Comma Press, Bea Moyes of digital publisher Ether Books and Dan Franklin, Digital Publisher at Random House who have recently launched their own digital short story imprint ‘Story Cuts’. Tickets £4
5.00 – 6.00 (cinema)Bloomsbury have declared 2012 as their ‘Year of the Short Story’ and former Random House editor Ali Reynolds who now runs her own literary consultancy in Bristol will introduce 3 stunning writers whose debut collections have all been published by Bloomsbury this year : Roshi Fernando, D W Wilson and Lucy Wood. Tickets £4
The day finishes with the 2012 Bristol Short Story Prize Awards Ceremony, when this year’s winning story will be revealed and Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 5 officially launched.
Tickets for the events in the Arnolfini cinema are available from Arnolfini’s box office : phone 0117 9172300 or visit www.arnolfini.org.uk
We are extremely grateful for funding and support from Arts Council England, Arnolfini and The Bristol Hotel in making this exciting event happen.
2012 BSSP Longlist Announced
Written by joe melia Tuesday, 22 May 2012
We’re really pleased to announce the 40 stories that have been longlisted for the 2012 Bristol Short Story Prize. We received a total of 2,304 entries and the scope, ambition and strength of the writing of this year’s submissions has been truly breathtaking. It has been a wonderful experience reading so many compelling, inventive and original short stories and we’d like to say a huge thank you to all the writers who entered.
We wish all those on the longlist the best of luck for the rest of the competition.
The stories are listed A-Z by author.
2012 Bristol Short Story Prize longlist:
Eugenia Will Come Back To You Someday – Kaj Anderson-Bauer (USA)
Naked As Eve – John Arnold (Australia)
Running to Nuthin’ – Lewis Bardsley (England)
Unearthed – Catherine Bokkers (The Netherlands)
The Swimmer – Lizzie Boyle (England)
Between Sea and Shore – Darci Bysouth (Scotland)
Dreams of Flying – Alexandra Carey (England)
Lobster – Alys Conran ( Wales)
Inked – Neil Durrant (Australia)
The Angel of the Warmth – Rachel J Fenton (New Zealand)
Time – Clare Fisher (England)
Battleground – Lisa Frank (Ireland)
Keith Morris is a Royal Plum – Martin Cathcart Froden (Scotland)
Something Somewhere Went Wrong – Sarah Gilmartin (Ireland)
People Like Her – Kerry Hood (England)
Apple Shot – Tracey Iceton (England)
Nice Blokes – Brian Jennings (England)
Meat – Avril Joy (England)
Dark Matter – Magda Knight (England)
Last Days of the Unicorn - Danielle McLaughlin (Ireland)
On The Day Weldon Kees Disappeared – Alan Mumford (England)
Flashpoint – Susan Murray (England)
Heaven on the Horizon – Noel O’Regan (Ireland)
Ghost in the Machine – Christopher Parvin ( England)
Sharks, Choices – Matt Plass (England)
Horses – Thomas Pyner (England)
Yoki and the Toy Surprise – Angela Readman (England)
Going Grapefruit – Ian Richards (England)
Beekiller – Ethel Rohan (USA)
Forty-Five RPM in Chicago – Derek Routledge (Wales)
Senile – Safia Shah (England)
The Bird – Samantha Short (England)
The Attack at Delium – William Telford (England)
Mackerel for Tea – Rhoda Thompson (England)
Jelly Feel Real – Ellie Walsh (England)
After the Flood – Melanie Whipman ( England)
I Once Knew Salman Rushdie - Hilary Wilce (England)
The Life of Ethan – Emily Williamson (England)
Flowers on the Flagstone – Mairi Wilson (Scotland)
Symmetry – Samuel Wright (England)
Highly Commended:
Crik Crak – E.L. Appleby ( England)
The Homecoming – Cait Atherton (Thailand)
And the Sea Gave Up Its Dead - Faith Barnes (Wales)
The Swanrite – Phillip Belcher
Last Wednesday – Cristina Burduja (England)
Stillness Comes – Michael John Burrows (Canada)
Transition – Holly Corfield Carr (England)
Beautiful Horizon – Sharda Dean (England)
White – Mark Dixon (England)
Living – Samuel Dodson (England)
For Gracie – Ruth Driscoll (England)
Glimmer – Kat Ellis (Wales)
Vitiligo – Jo Else (England)
A Death in the Family – Kathleen English (England)
The Beginning – Louise Gethin (England)
Where Steamers Wait... – T.D. Griggs (England)
Soap Opera in a Red Camaro – Norma Harrs (Canada)
A Young Country – Joanna Herrmann (England)
Angel Eggs – Nydia Hetherington ( England)
The Genitals and the Soul – David B Huebert (Canada)
Confessions of a Pigeon Feeder – Charlotte Humphries (England)
Puddings in the Park – Clair Humphries (England)
Lally – Tina Jackson (England)
The Wish Improvement Mechanism – Amy Kellam (England)
Detective Noir – Ryan Anthony Licata (England)
Yellow River – Karen Lindsay
The Lady Bandit – Kelly Matsuura (Japan)
The Novel Factory – Luke Melia (England)
Geminids – Will Miles (England)
Sweetness – Lorraine Nevin (South Africa)
You Always Hurt – Michael Nicholson (England)
The Elephant Sun – Emyr Payne (Wales)
Frank Has Weeds – Mike Pym (England)
Greasbys – Olivia Rana (Northern Ireland)
Flight of Fancy – Mary Reynolds ( Ireland)
White Witch – Don Roy (Canada)
Afternoon Lullaby – Susha Chandra Ryner ( England)
Craving – Erics Sail (England)
Moving In – Janet Swinney (England)
A Dance in the Bomb Shelter – Steven Tizzard
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