Tania Hershman's Blog

• The Short Review July Issue

  July 3, 2009

  • The July Issue is here! First, congratulations to the six short story collections shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. See the blog for the shortlist. With this month's issue, we bring you the most authors we have ever reviewed - with anthologies containing stories from up to 50 authors outnumbering single-author collections. There is a plethora of criminal ...
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• Ritual and Rules?

  June 22, 2009

  • I have just written 600 words, and it's 11.27 am. For me, that's huge! A good day. And I am thinking about ritual, because on my last day here at Anam Cara I realised that I sort of set up a ritual: breakfast, walk down to the river, sit for a while thinking about what I might write, or thinking about something else and waiting for it to come, it arriving, and going back to my room to write it - ...
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• Bigger Picture & Guardian Weekend Short Story Competition

  June 21, 2009

  • I had hoped to be able to announce some lovely news here but it isn't public yet so will have to rein myself in! The good news is that my week here at the Anam Cara writing retreat, which draws to a close tomorrow, has helped enormously, as I hoped it would. Not in terms of writing reams of words, but in turning what I had seen as a strange mess of vaguely connected bits and pieces about my ...
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