We Recommend
Submissions are now being accepted for our We Recommend series. Articles should be no more than 1500 words in length, written in the first-person, and be subjective in tone. Articles should address:
1) a collection, anthology, group of short stories or a single short story;
2) your personal response to the work being discussed;
3) articles might also refer to how the work has influenced you as a reader and/or writer.
Please refer to our guidelines before submitting any material for consideration. Submissions should be sent as an attachment to: thresholds@chi.ac.uk with the subject ‘We Recommend Submission’.
We Recommend:
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David Almond’s ‘Slog’s Dad’ — Craig Lamont
Hanan Al-Shaykh’s ‘The Scratching of Angels’ Pens’ — Jemma Draycott
Margaret Atwood’s ‘Rape Fantasies’ — Wanda Campbell
B
Julian Barnes’s Pulse - Soumya Bhattacharya
Richard Bausch — Morgan Omotoye
‘This Beautiful House’ by Louis de Bernieres — Jose Varghese
The Best British Short Stories 2012 — Lela Tredwell
Bio-Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research — Kirsty Walters
‘Death and the Compass’ by Jorge Louis Borges — Emily Cleaver
The Maker by Jorge Louis Borges — Daniel Spinks
Bridges: A Global Anthology of Short Stories — Kirsty Walters
Frederick Busch’s Ralph The Duck - Sarah Hegarty
C
Angela Carter’s ‘The Company of Wolves’ - Morgaine Davidson
Angela Carter’s ‘The Erl-King’ — Ever Dundas
Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small, Good Thing’ — Wendy Good
Raymond Carver’s Beginners — Will Bowerman
Anton Chekhov’s The Exclamation Mark — Dan Powell
A.E. Coppard’s ‘The Higgler’ — Mike Smith
A.E. Coppard’s ‘Weep Not My Wanton’ - Mike Smith
Julio Cortázar’s ‘Cartas de Mamá’ — Bella Whittington
D
Junot Diaz’s This is How You Lose Her — Ruba Abughaida
Philip K. Dick — Mike Smith
Anthony Doerr’s Memory Wall - Tania Hershman
Stella Duffy’s ‘To Brixton Beach’ — Carine Osmont
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Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines - Benjamin Noys
G
Brian George’s ‘More Than a Magician’ — Juliet West
H
Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ — Jason Clifton
Tania Hershman’s My Mother Was An Upright Piano — Vicki Heath
Patricia Highsmith’s Little Tales of Misogyny — Konstantinos Tzikas
A.M. Homes’ A Real Doll — Ruth Quinlan
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James Joyce’s Dubliners — Mike Smith
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Panos Karenzis’ Little Infamies — Gina Challen
Daniel Kehlmann’s Fame — Katherine Orr
Hanif Kureishi’s Collected Stories - Alison MacLeod
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Nam Le’s The Boat — Katherine Orr
Yiyun Li’s Gold Boy, Emerald Girl — Amanda Oosthuizen
H.P. Lovecraft — Geoff Holder
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Alexander MacLeod — Mary Jo Anderson
André Mangeot — Hugh Dunkerley
Adam Marek’s The Stone Thrower — Lela Tredwell
James McKenna’s Black Range Tales — Kate Prudchenko
Screwtop Thompson by Magnus Mills — Eamonn Griffin
Rohinton Mistry’s ‘Squatter’ — Jose Varghese
George Moore — Mike Smith
Two Stories by Alice Munro — Ellie Walsh
N
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Flannery O’Connor — Kath McKay
K. J. Orr’s The Inland Sea — Vicki Heath
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby — Amanda Oosthuizen
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Woman - Pauline Masurel
Annie Proulx — Hayley Singer
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Michèle Roberts - Amanda McAleese
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J.D. Salinger’s ‘For Esmé–With Love and Squalor’ — Wanda Campbell
Diane Schoemperlen’s Forms of Devotion — Felicity Skelton
Sam Selvon’s Short Stories — Cyril Dabydeen
Helen Simpson’s Hey Yeah Right Get A Life - Carys Bray
Michael V. Smith’s ‘What We Wanted’ — Ellie Walsh
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Colm Tóibín’s The Empty Family — Paul Curd
Colm Tóibín’s ‘A Song’ — Anushree Nande
Valerie Trueblood’s Marry or Burn — Nuala Ní Chonchúir
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Kurt Vonnegut — Pauline Masurel
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