Short Story Recommendation: Before the Storm, by Alex Sheal

Recommendation by Josephine Greenland I met her in a cocktail bar, but she wasn’t working as a waitress. She was getting drunk like me at the counter, blabbing...

The Short Story Review: ‘Collected Stories’ by John McGahern

  Review by James Holden When the Irish writer John McGahern died in 2006, The Guardian’s obituary referred to him as “arguably the most impo...

The Short Story Review: ‘The Accidental Wife’ by Orla McAlinden

Review by Alex Reece Abbott   This award-winning, debut collection (Eludia Award, 2014 and BGEIBA 2016 Irish Short Story of the Year) publish...

The Short Story Review: ‘Some Glow More Than Others’ by Tania Hershman

Review by Rupert Dastur Anyone familiar with Hershman’s work will not be surprised by the quality of this superb collection, nor its primary preoccup...

The Short Story Review: The BBC National Short Story Award 2016

Review by Paul Hague The BBC National Short Story Award reached its eleventh year in 2016. Backed by BookTrust, the award’s mission is to “expand opp...

The Short Story Review: ‘Unthology 9’ ed., Ashley Stokes and Robin Jones

  Review by Rupert Dastur   A collection of seventeen short stories, Unthology 9’s most defining characteristic is quality. Stokes an...

The Short Story Review: ‘In Margate by Lunchtime’ by Maggie Harris

  Review by James Holden In Margate by Lunchtime is Maggie Harris’ second collection of short stories, which are born of her intimacy with th...

TSS Event Review: Flim Nite Presents Mad Max, Fury Road

Flim Nite presents Mad Max: Fury Road Three Minute Theatre, Manchester (06/01/2017) Review by Abi Hynes I feel like I need to start this review...