Apr 30, 2022 | Joe Melia
Great news for Aniqah Choudhri; Aniqah’s poem The Unloving Ground has won the €6,000 Moth Poetry Prize, one of the world’s richest prizes for an unpublished poem. The prize was judged by acclaimed poet, Warsan Shire, who described Aniqah’s The Unloving Ground as “a lush, gorgeous poem – one that indulges all of the senses,…
Apr 07, 2022 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Angela Readman on the publication of her new short story collection, The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles by Valley Press. Booker shortlisted novelist, Alison Moore says: “Angela Readman’s stories have a compelling intimacy and gorgeous imagery, and are often deeply moving – highly recommended reading.” From the publisher’s website: “Bold, beautiful and spiky, Angela…
Mar 31, 2022 | Joe Melia
A very happy publication day to Tom Watson and his debut novel, Metronome, which is officially published today by Bloomsbury. Tom has been receiving great early reviews for Metronome. Naomi Ishiguro calls it ‘taut, unsettling and so completely charged with both tension and emotion’. While Emma Stonex says the novel is “a pure, tender, terrifying…
Jan 25, 2022 | Joe Melia
Many congratulations to Sarah Tinsley on the publication of her debut novel, The Shadows We Cast by SRL Publishing. Sarah’s novel is being launched at a virtual event tonight, 7pm UK time. SRL describe the book as “a dark novel about consent and control that unsettles ideas about victims and villains.” We wish Sarah huge…
Jan 20, 2022 | Joe Melia
Happy publication day to Rebecca F John and her latest novel, The Empty Greatcoat which has been published by Aderyn Press. From Aderyn Press’ website: “When Francis House enlists in the British Army in 1907, at the tender age of fifteen years and three months, he is not thinking about war. He imagines he simply…
Nov 29, 2021 | Joe Melia
It’s great to see that a new short story collection, I Am the Mask Maker and other stories by Rhiannon Lewis was published by Victorina Press earlier this month, the same publisher who brought out Rhiannon’s debut novel, My Beautiful Imperial. The new collection features some of Rhiannon’s stories that have won or been shortlisted…
Nov 12, 2021 | Joe Melia
Happy publication day to Ruth Brandt and her new short story collection, No One Has Any Intention of Building a Wall, published by Fly On The Wall Press. The collection takes its title from Ruth’s short story which was shortlisted for the 2011 Bristol Short Story Prize. From Fly On The Wall’s website: “Ruth Brandt’s…
Nov 09, 2021 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Rose McDonagh who has been signed by literary agent, Kate Evans at the Peters, Fraser and Dunlop agency. And in more exciting news, Rose’s short story collection, The Dog Husband will be published by Reflex Press next year. The book is described on Reflex’s website as “…a collection of short, literary fiction themed…
Oct 27, 2021 | Joe Melia
Exciting news for Chetna Maroo; her debut novel, Western Lane will be published by Picador in the spring of 2023. The book will also be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US and Knopf will publish it in Canada. Ravi Mirchandani, Picador’s editor-in-chief, quoted on The Bookseller magazine’s website says: “I was struck…
Oct 21, 2021 | Joe Melia
Happy publication day to Sammy Wright and his debut novel, Fit, published by And Other Stories. The novel, which won the 2020 Northern Book Prize, is described as “Charting the impact on a small community of a girl being plucked by happenstance from her foster home and dropped into a dazzling new life as a…
Oct 18, 2021 | Joe Melia
Isidora Cortes-Monroy was announced as the winner of the 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize just over a week ago. Originally from Chile, and raised in Switzerland, Isidora left her studies in Hotel Management and went on to do a BA in English Literature and Spanish at the University of Manchester, an MPhil in Comparative Literatures…
Oct 02, 2021 | Joe Melia
Congratulations to Avril Joy on the publication of her new short story collection, this One Wild Place by Linen Press. The book brings together some of Avril’s previously published stories and some new unpublished work. From Linen Press’ website: “Combining a poet’s gift for language with a keen naturalist’s eye, Avril Joy takes her readers…
Sep 29, 2021 | Joe Melia
Great news for Dizz Tate; her debut novel, Brutes, will be published by Faber & Faber in the UK and Catapult in the US in 2023, after the novel was bought in a five-way auction. Faber commissioning editor, Emmie Francis, quoted in The Bookseller said: “Brutes is a classic, virtuoso coming-of-age story – one that depicts…
Sep 23, 2021 | Joe Melia
Many congratulations to Habiba Cooper Diallo on the publication of her book, #BlackInSchool this week by Canadian publisher, University of Regina Press. From the publisher’s website: “#BlackInSchool is Habiba Cooper Diallo’s high school journal, in which she documents, processes, and resists the systemic racism, microaggressions, stereotypes, and outright racism she experienced while being Black in school…
Sep 21, 2021 | Joe Melia
Great news for 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize winner, Valerie O’Riordan who has been signed by literary agent, Tom Drake-Lee at the DHH agency. Valerie, who is co-editor at the review site, Bookmunch, senior editor at The Forge Literary Magazine and a lecturer in Creative Writing at Bolton University, says: “I couldn’t be more excited…
