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Welcome To Thresholds
February 22nd 2012
Submissions are invited to our Feature Writing Competition, profiling a short story writer or recommending a favourite short story. The author of the winning essay will receive £250. See the Feature Competition tab at the top of the screen for more details.
Meeting Your Inner Mentor — A Writing Exercise
February 22nd 2012
"Quite often, the hardest barrier for new writers to overcome is a lack of confidence – certainly that’s been my experience." RIN SIMPSON leads us through a writing exercise to help get the words flowing.
We Recommend — Richard Bausch
February 20th 2012
In his first THRESHOLDS post, MORGAN OMOTOYE finds much to recommend in The Stories of Richard Bausch.
The Tweeters Recommend
February 15th 2012
We’ve been asking our Twitter followers to recommend their favourite short story reads. Here's what they had to say...
It Takes Longer To Write Than To Read
February 13th 2012
'To make something brilliant and important isn’t easy, and nor should it be.' NIK PERRING shows us the amount of work and craft and dedication it takes to write short, short fiction.
Groundbreaking Stories
February 8th 2012
Listen to ROBERT COOVER and YIYUN LI reading and discussing their work at The Small Wonder Festival. This podcast is exclusively available to THRESHOLDS members and is password protected. Not a member? Join now...
Rejection — What Can We Learn From it?
February 6th 2012
DORA D'AGOSTINO tells us how an editor's rejection lead to an epiphany.
Coffee With…Toby Litt
February 1st 2012
Join KATHERINE ORR in conversation with writer TOBY LITT. This podcast is exclusively available to THRESHOLDS members and is password protected. Members, see newsletter for details or contact thresholds@chi.ac.uk.
Working for a Living:
January 30th 2012
'The struggle to find a balance between writing and earning a living is one which most writers have experienced at some time or another.' SALLY O'REILLY looks at how this conflict shaped the work of Raymond Carver.
Listen to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’s Party’
January 25th 2012
We are pleased to offer you a live reading of 'Mrs. Dalloway's Party' by Virginia Woolf, recorded at the 2011 Small Wonder Festival. This podcast is exclusively available to THRESHOLDS members and is password protected. Members, see newsletter for details or contact thresholds@chi.ac.uk.
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Little Fictions, Big Questions
'Short short? Flash? Micro? Skinny? Nano? 55 words? 100? Less than 500? We may not be sure what to call them or how to define them, but we recognise these miniature fictions when we see them.' URSULA HURLEY looks at the growth of the smallest form.
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Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small, Good Thing’
'It is the contradictions of the human condition which Raymond Carver is so adept at exploring, a quality that makes his 1983 collection Cathedral a captivating read.' WENDY GOOD recommends the story 'A Small Good Thing'.
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We Recommend — Kurt Vonnegut
PAULINE MASUREL recommends the second posthumously published collection of early Kurt Vonnegut stories and finds that his prescient voice still has a great deal to tell us about the world we live in, today.
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Notwithstanding Christmas:
JOSE VARGHESE explores the longing beyond life in Louis de Bernieres' short story 'This Beautiful House'.
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