| Event Name: | An Evening With Short Story Writers |
| Description: | Canadian writer D.W. Wilson has just been named the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award. At 26, he is the youngest recipient in the prize's history. The winning story, The Dead Roads, is a tale of a highly-charged road trip.
Adam Marek was recently awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Short Story writing. His first story collection Instruction Manual for Swallowing was nominated for the Frank O'Connor Prize. "Marek's fabulously meaty, funny writing makes the short story look really exciting again, pulling you, frame by frame, into a bright, strange future" - Maggie Gee.
American writer Patricia Ann McNair is an Associate Professor in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago, where she was nominated for the Carnegie Foundation's US Professor of the Year. Her debut collection, The Temple of Air links the lives and stories of a place and its people through tragedy and consequence, blind faith and redemption.
The event will be chaired by writer K.J. Orr, whose story, The Human Circadian Pacemaker, was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Tickets are £5 (including a glass of wine). They may be purchased from our Hampstead shop in person, with credit/debit card by telephone or online. |
| Type of Event: | Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings |
| Event Agenda: | Opening hours:
Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 18.00
Sunday 11.00 - 18.00 |
| Event Location: | Daunt Books Hampstead |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Library - Book Shop |
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| Event Start Date | 09-Nov-11 |