Root: New Stories by North-East Writers

by Kitty Fitzgerald

Root is a collection of short stories which re-affirm the North-East's status as a vibrant area for new writing.
The subjects of the 13 stories on show here range from the domestic – family relationships, gardening, bullying, adoption and loss – to the plain a circus bearded lady, a woman who morphs into Elvis, and an insight into what God wears to work.
The writers featured in Root include Avril Joy, Fiona Cooper, Amanda Baker and Rob Walton.
Kitty Fitzgerald was born in Ireland, and now lives in Northumberland. A poet, playwright and novelist, her latest novel is Pigtopia (Faber, 2006), critically acclaimed in the Independent and the Scotsman and a finalist in the Barnes & Noble Discover Awards in the US in 2006. She has edited two anthologies of fiction for Iron Iron New Stories by Women (1990) and Biting New Fiction from the North (2001). In 2009 her story 'The Bones of St Ignatious' won the Latitude Festival / Notes from the Underground short-story competition.

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152 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2013

About the author

Kitty Fitzgerald is the author of four novels and four plays for the BBC and eight theatre plays. She was a finalist (second place) in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award in 2005; received a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005, a Time to Write Award in 2003, and a C.P. Taylor Playwriting Bursary; and won most original screenplay for the film Dream On at Le Baule Film Festival. Born in Ireland, she lives on Tyndeside.