Competition Winner
We are delighted to announce the results of the 2013 THRESHOLDS International Feature Writing Competition…
The Competition Longlist
Over the past few weeks, the team of THRESHOLDS judges has been busy reading and re-reading the entries, debating their merits and falling for their charms. Today, we bring you…. The 2013 THRESHOLDS Features Award longlist.
Story: ‘The Peacock and the Angel’ by Aamer Hussein
STORY: We are delighted to bring you ‘The Peacock and the Angel’ from Pakistani writer AAMER HUSSEIN. ‘I was watering flowerbeds in the garden when my husband came through the gate and said: “You’ll have to be strong. Your friend…” He didn’t need to tell me whom he was talking about.’
Black Vodka
JEANLOUP PRANCHERE recommends Black Vodka: ‘I have always thought of myself as lost property, someone waiting to be claimed,’ confesses the main character in the title story of Deborah Levy’s new collection…
Testing Times in K’s ‘Metamorphosis’
G.F. PHILLIPS take us through the testing times of Franz Kafka’s story ‘Metamorphosis’: ‘…the central character is immediately faced with a sudden and overwhelming predicament of identity – and what a predicament…’
The World of Michel Faber
‘The whole point of fiction should be to allow the reader to experience life from inside different people’s skins’. MILES SALTER interviews Michel Faber and considers the many worlds of his fiction.
Breece D’J Pancake: A Short Life in the Hills
‘After reading just one story, ‘Hollow’, Andre Dubus wrote: ‘I wish someone could have saved him’. Joyce Carol Oates compared him to Hemingway; Jayne Anne Phillips – a fellow West Virginian – to the Joyce of Dubliners…’ In this Author Profile, SEAN MARTIN shows us the brief writing life of Breece D’J Pancake.
James Salter’s ‘Akhnilo’
MORGAN OMOTOYE takes us on Eddie Fenn’s journey to discover a mysterious sound in the night, in James Salter’s short story ‘Akhnilo’.
Patricia Highsmith’s Little Tales of Misogyny
‘I’ve often found Highsmith’s work both perplexing and engaging, yet, for me, there is no question about her value as a writer.’ KONSTANTINOS TZIKAS looks at the representation of women in Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Little Tales of Misogyny’.
Short Stories and the Power of ‘Not Knowing’ by David Constantine
‘I start a story because some concrete image or situation prompts or pesters or forces me to. And I don’t know where I am going when I start…’ Author DAVID CONSTANTINE talks to THRESHOLDS about the art of writing stories.