Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 7

Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology

by Mahsuda Snaith

A globe-spanning collection of stories shortlisted for the 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize which introduces 20 wonderful writers and their exceptional talents.

Featuring: Jennifer Allott, Martyn Bryant, Chris Edwards-Pritchard, Richard Fifield, Amaryllis Gacioppo, Claire Griffiths, Sophie Hampton, James Hughes, Sarah Isaac, Colter Jackson, Danielle McLaughlin, Keeley Mansfield, Fiona Mitchell, Emma Murray, Benjamin Myers, Paddy O’Reilly, Tannith Perry, Mahsuda Snaith, Tom Vowler, David Wareham

"This is a stunning collection of contemporary short stories and I urge you to pick up a copy if you can." Scott Pack, writer, publisher at HarperCollins imprint, The Friday Project on meandmyshortstories

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 3, 2014

Reviews

[Tim Love]

An enjoyable collection. The 3 prizewinners (all good) have similarities. Indeed, throughout the anthology there's lots of immediacy, and many main characters to empathise with. There are many children's viewpoints, absent parents, mothers who sleep around. They're stories which would work well on the radio, the one exception being Martyn Bryant's piece. As usual with such anthologies, I've trouble seeing the excellence of 20% or so of the pieces. I think the best of the commended stories were by Edwards-Pritchard and (in particular) Myers.

"on it's own", "gate our front" and "it's reputation" are typos.