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Is This What You Want?: The Asham Award Short-story Collection

Is This What You Want?: The Asham Award Short-story Collection

by KatePullinger (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

This is a dazzling, witty and richly varied collection of short stories, which includes contributions by six much-loved writers - Patricia Duncker, Rachel Cusk, Tessa Hadley, Emily Perkins, Nancy Lee and Kate Pullinger - as well as the twelve brand-new voices of those shortlisted for the Asham Short-Story Award 2007. Asham House in Sussex was once home to Virginia and Leonard Woolf and is the inspiration behind the Asham Award. Launched in 1996 to support and encourage new writers, it is Britain's only prize for short stories by women.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 17 Sep 2007
ISBN 10: 0747587124
ISBN 13: 9780747587125
Book Overview: The Asham Award is a biennial award for short stories by women which, since 1996, has been promoting and encouraging innovative, ground-breaking writing for the future Features six commissioned writers (including Patricia Duncker, Tessa Hadley, Emily Perkins, Nancy Lee, Rachel Cusk and Kate Pullinger) and twelve finalists of the biannual Asham Award Published to coincide with the prize-giving ceremony for the Asham Award 2007. The judges this year are Tobias Hill, Antonia Byatt and Patricia Duncker

Media Reviews
Praise for the Asham Short-Story Collections: 'The writing is top quality, regardless of the individual authors' fame, and there's something here for everyone' Glamour 'One of the most pleasurable aspects of this anthology is its combining of excellent new stories alongside the work of newcomers' The Times 'A timely reminder of the bite-sized pleasures to be tasted and savoured in glittering glimpses of love, loss and dry cleaning' Independent 'An impressive and masterfully edited collection of short stories ... Like a top-notch issue of Granta, this collection is imbued with the edgy zeal and conviction that makes new writers worth reading' Irish Times
Author Bio
Kate Pullinger's books include the novels A Little Stranger, Weird Sister, The Last Time I Saw Jane and Where Does Kissing End? and the short-story collections My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison and Tiny Lies. Kate also writes for digital media; you can find her latest multi-media piece, Inanimate Alice, at www.katepullinger.com. She is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University; she lives in London.