Six Shorts 2016: The finalists for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award

by Alix Christie, Petina Gappah, Colum McCann

The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the world's richest and most prestigious prize for a short story, with £30,000 going to the winner.
This special ebook contains, in full, all six shortlisted stories competing for the 2016 award, written by an intriguing selection of international voices.
The list contains authors from five different countries - Alix Christie (United States), Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe), Colum McCann (Ireland), Edith Pearlman (United States), Nicholas Ruddock (Canada) and Jonathan Tel (United Kingdom).

Genres: Short Stories

95 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 16, 2016

About the author

I'm an American-Canadian author and journalist. Born in California and raised Montana and British Columbia, I started writing at the age of 10 with a family newspaper and a (very bad) novel about horses. I studied philosophy at Vassar College, journalism at UC Berkeley and got my masters in fine arts from St Mary's College of California. In my first career as a journalist I reported for newspapers in California and from Europe as a foreign correspondent, including the Washington Post, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle and Salon.com. I currently write about culture for The Economist.

I published my debut novel, "Gutenberg's Apprentice" in 2014 and have since written and published award-winning short stories. My new novel, "The Shining Mountains" is the story of my distant great-uncle and his Native American wife and family in the 19th century Rocky Mountain West. Learning about and sharing this important history has been incredibly enriching. Learn more about it at www.alixchristie.com.

Reviews

[Ugur · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a couple of the stories, it can be just a question of personal interest or a preference for a particular style, but I didn't see what was special about them. A couple had great style but the stories, were a bit less interesting, ans a couple of them were impressive including the winner.

[P.D. Dawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though the writing was really good, I couldn't connect with all of the stories and found the selection wasn't as good as the 2017 collection that I read previously.

[Des Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.

[Zada Kent · Rating 3 out of 5]

Half of these stories I enjoyed immensely.