All Bone and Muscle
‘When an idea has been tightened, skinned, moulded, crafted until it can be honed no more, what remains is crisply worded bliss.’ BIDISHA discusses the 8-year process of crafting and redrafting her story ‘Dust’.
Listen and Be Heard
GORDON PHILLIPS reports on the growing popularity of spoken word recordings and the new publishing venture, ListenUpNorth.
We Recommend – Richard Bausch
In his first THRESHOLDS post, MORGAN OMOTOYE finds much to recommend in The Stories of Richard Bausch.
It Takes Longer To Write Than To Read
‘To make something brilliant and important isn’t easy, and nor should it be.’ NIK PERRING shows us the amount of work and craft and dedication it takes to write short, short fiction.
Groundbreaking Stories
Listen to ROBERT COOVER and YIYUN LI reading and discussing their work at The Small Wonder Festival. This podcast is exclusively available to THRESHOLDS members and is password protected. Not a member? Join now…
Rejection – What Can We Learn From it?
DORA D’AGOSTINO tells us how an editor’s rejection lead to an epiphany.
Coffee With…Toby Litt
Join KATHERINE ORR in conversation with writer TOBY LITT. This podcast is exclusively available to THRESHOLDS members and is password protected. Members, see newsletter for details or contact thresholds@chi.ac.uk.
Working for a Living:
‘The struggle to find a balance between writing and earning a living is one which most writers have experienced at some time or another.’ SALLY O’REILLY looks at how this conflict shaped the work of Raymond Carver.
Listen to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’s Party’
We are pleased to offer you a live reading of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’s Party’ by Virginia Woolf, recorded at the 2011 Small Wonder Festival. This podcast is exclusively available to THRESHOLDS members and is password protected. Members, see newsletter for details or contact thresholds@chi.ac.uk.
Little Fictions, Big Questions
‘Short short? Flash? Micro? Skinny? Nano? 55 words? 100? Less than 500? We may not be sure what to call them or how to define them, but we recognise these miniature fictions when we see them.’ URSULA HURLEY looks at the growth of the smallest form.