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Short Stories: the lazy option? A Panel Discussion
Ailsa Cox, Sam Jordison, Jean McNeil & Lucy Durneen
What is the point of short stories? Who would write them? Why not write a novel? Sam Jordison, co-director of Galley Beggar Press; Ailsa Cox, Author, Professor of Short Fiction and founder of the Edge Hill Prize; Jean McNeil, Author of 14 books, including six novels and a collection of short fiction, and Lucy Durneen, award-winning short story writer talk about the short story and the positives and negatives of working with short fiction.
Alisa Cox
Short story author and Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University, the editor of the journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice and deputy director of the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR).
Founder of the Edge Hill Prize, the only UK-based literary award for a published short-story collection.
Sam Jordison
Writer, journalist and co-director of the award winning independent publisher Galley Beggar Press.
Sam writes about books and publishing for The Guardian and is the author of several works of non-fiction.
Jean McNeil
Author of 14 books, including six novels and a collection of short fiction.
Jean teaches at University of East Anglia where she is Reader in Creative Writing and directs the Creative-critical PhD programme.
Dr Lucy Durneen
Teaching Associate for Creative Writing, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.
Published and commended in journals including World Literature Today, Hotel Amerika, and Meniscus. Winner of Best Short Story Collection at the Saboteur Awards and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2018.
Emerging Writers discuss the Joy of the Short Story
Kate Swindlehurst, Mbozi Haimbe and Dr Midge Gillies
Mbozi Haimbe and Kate Swindlehurst read from their work and talk to Midge Gillies about how their writing has developed and why the short story appeals to them so strongly.
Kate Swindlehurst
Writer and blogger awarded an Escalator Award in 2010.
Mbozi Haimbe
Writer currently working on a collection of African inspired short stories while also exploring ideas for her debut novel.
Winner of the Africa regional prize of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and is one of five shortlisted for the overall prize.
Dr Midge Gillies
Academic Director, Institute Teaching Officer in Creative Writing, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education
Author of seven non-fiction books, including biographies of Amy Johnson and Marie Lloyd.
How a Short Story gets published
Sam Jordison, Laura McNeill and Louise Tucker
Sam Jordison, co-director of Galley Beggar Press and Laura McNeill, Agent at PFD talks about who is currently publishing short stories, what editors and agents are looking for and how prizes are influencing the style and reputation of short fiction.
Sam Jordison
Writer, journalist and co-director of the award winning independent publisher, Galley Beggar Press.
Sam writes about books and publishing for The Guardian and is the author of several works of non-fiction.
Laura McNeill
An Associate Agent in the Books Department at Peters Fraser and Dunlop.
Laura Tucker
Editor, lecturer and writer
Having worked full-time in publishing and academia, including stints at Bloomsbury, Granta, HarperCollins and Quarto, Louise is now a freelance editor and a creative writing lecturer at Goldsmiths and London Metropolitan University.
The Art and Craft of the Short Story
Dame Gillian Beer and Tessa Hadley
Gillian Beer the award-winning literary critic and academic has brought her deep wit and insight to interviews with some of the most influential writers around the world. This evening she will be in conversation with the award-winning novelist and short story writer Tessa Hadley.
Dame Gillian Beer
Literary critic and academic.
In 1997 Gillian served as chair of the judges for the Booker Prize, and was awarded the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2017.
Tessa Hadley
Author of novels, short stories and non-fiction.
Longlisted twice for the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction.
09:30 - 17:30