Ed. by Maria Crossan & Eleanor Rees
Featuring:
Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Clive Barker, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Farley, Margaret Murphy, Dinesh Allirajah, James Friel, and Tracy Aston.
Ten short stories specially commissioned and gathered together to tell the wider collective tale of the city itself, since the Second World War, featuring many of the city's most acclaimed authors.
Launch: Thu 29 May, The Bluecoat, 7.30pm
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The debut collection by a writer better known for his stage and TV work has just been selected for a prestigious new award celebrating the best short story collections by a single author. Tiny Deaths has also been longlisted for the Frank O'connor International Short Story Award (the biggest prize for short fiction in the world), along with Adam Marek's Instruction Manual for Swallowing .
Read more about the Edgehill shortlist and the Frank O'Connor longlist.
Read more about the book.

Comma's first venture into horror fiction, Phobic: Modern Horror Stories edited by Andy Murray has been nominated for the Best Anthology prize in this year's BFS Awards. Three stories within it - Ramsey Campbell's 'Digging Deep', Conrad Williams' 'Tight Wrappers', and Nicholas Royle's 'Lancashire' - have also been nominated in the best short story category.
Congratulations to all three writers, and to the editor Andy Murray in particular!
For more information and a chance to vote for your favourite, click here.

Listen to new readings from the forthcoming Book of Liverpool by Dinesh Allirajah, Tracy Aston, and Ramsey Campbell.
As well as readings from the forthoming M.O. anthology by Martyn Bedford, Martin Edwards and Karline Smith.
All available on StoryBank completely free, here.

The Crime Writers' Association Anthology
Ed. by Martin Edwards
Featuring:
Robert Barnard, Martyn Bedford, Ann Cleeves, Bernie Crosthwaite, Carol Anne Davis, Martin Edwards, Jürgen Ehlers, Kate Ellis, Liz Evans, Paul A Freeman, Jim Gregson, Mick Herron, Sarah Hilary, Andre Marois, Amy Myers, Christine Poulson, Karline Smith, Douglas Stewart, and Yvonne Eve Walus.
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Ed. by Jim Hinks
Featuring:
Charlotte Allan, Juliet Bates, Annie Clarkson, Adam Connors, Steve Dearden, Paul de Havilland, Tyler Keevil, Chris Killen, Richard Knight , Jacqueline McCarrick, Neil McQuillian, Heather Richardson, David Rose, Guy Russell, and Guy Ware.
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by Adam Marek
Makes the short story look really exciting again...
- Maggie Gee
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"There's a transgressive thrill to Adam Marek's debut collection of short stories that's not simply a result of the potency of the subject matter... tales as playful and emotionally resonant as they are disturbing... delightful." - The Guardian.
"Genuine, unsettling talent" - The Independent.

by Chris Woods
Chris Woods’ poetry always has the sense of a direct hit... - Gerard Woodward.
A poet of hope for everyday life.
- Anne Stevenson
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Stories from Small Town Europe
Edited by Maria Crossan
Europe is heavy with history and the trace left by cataclysm and upheaval...
- AS Byatt
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"A rewarding read"
- The Guardian, 5 January 08

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