The Edge Hill Short Story Prize Shortlist 2023
Selected by the Bookshop
This year’s winner is Bernie McGill for her collection This Train Is For – congratulations to Bernie and to her brilliant publisher No Alibis Press!
From the publisher:
Bernie McGill’s award-winning stories have been widely praised for their emotional depth and lyrical language.She is a writer of profound sensitivity and observation whose masterful deployment of linguistic precision and economy…
From the publisher:
A woman feeding a baby late at night listens to the animal sounds in the city around her. A grieving widow encounters an injured jellyfish on a deserted beach. A young woman can’t shake the image of dying hare she finds at the side of…
From the publisher:
'Sensual, spiky, tender and utterly original' Pandora Sykes'A fierce and fascinating debut' Lily KingI was told of an older woman who was asked by her granddaughter, 'Granny, when was the happiest time of your life?''I don't know,' she…
From the publisher:
A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten document in an old desk in need of restoration is overwhelming. And when Roxanne rescues her sister from an…
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