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Welcome To Thresholds
May 22nd 2013
Welcome to THRESHOLDS: home of the international short story forum. Members can participate by joining our team of bloggers, entering into online discussions, and submitting material to Writing Exercises, Author Profiles, We Recommend and Discussions. Contact us at: thresholds@chi.ac.uk.
Baby Shoes
May 22nd 2013
'For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.' CHLOE DALTON takes a closer look at one of the shortest stories ever written...
How to Read Lorrie Moore
May 20th 2013
TRACY MAYLATH guides us through the second-person narratives of Lorrie Moore's Self-Help: 'Everyone speaks in ‘yous’: ‘you feel’ when they mean ‘I felt’, ‘you know’ when they mean ‘I want you to understand me’. Perhaps that’s why we find it irritating in literature...'
Miriam by Truman Capote
May 15th 2013
'A deeply unsettling tale, a psychological horror which is all the more disturbing because it is so finely wrought...' JULIET WEST explores Truman Capote's haunting short story 'Miriam'.
No One Belongs Here More Than You
May 13th 2013
'Her stories are visually rich, her dialogue skilfully edited, her ability to conjure up the reality of a scene is almost incantatory...' In her essay, shortlisted for our 2013 Feature Writing Competition, ANNA ARBITER recommends No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July.
The Fall of the British Empire
May 8th 2013
In his essay, shortlisted for the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition, STEPHEN DEVEREUX recommends Saki’s ‘The Lumber Room’. 'The severe, unimaginative, repressive regime imposed upon him was frequently the target of his stories – small children outwitting and humiliating stupid adults time and time again.'
We Recommend Adam Marek
May 6th 2013
In her essay, shortlisted for the 2013 THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition, CARYS BRAY recommends the words of Adam Marek: ‘sometimes only outright surrealism can do justice to the merciless strangeness of reality.’
The Games of Night
April 29th 2013
DAN POWELL, runner-up in the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition, recommends Stig Dagerman’s short story collection The Games of Night: 'Sometimes at night, running from the shadows of his own loneliness, Stig Dagerman had a game he would play...'
Competition Winner
April 26th 2013
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition...
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2013 International Feature Writing Competition Shortlist
Drawing up the longlist from all the entries was not easy. Narrowing it down to six shortlisted pieces was harder still... The results are in for the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition SHORTLIST.
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Hitting Trees with Sticks
'Great short stories linger on in the minds of readers like old photographs...' CARLOTTA EDEN recommends Jane Rogers' debut collection Hitting Trees with Sticks.
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The Competition Longlist
Over the past few weeks, the team of THRESHOLDS judges has been busy reading and re-reading the entries, debating their merits and falling for their charms. Today, we bring you.... The 2013 THRESHOLDS Features Award longlist.
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Story: ‘The Peacock and the Angel’ by Aamer Hussein
STORY: We are delighted to bring you 'The Peacock and the Angel' from Pakistani writer AAMER HUSSEIN. 'I was watering flowerbeds in the garden when my husband came through the gate and said: "You’ll have to be strong. Your friend..." He didn’t need to tell me whom he was talking about.'
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