Small Wonder: THE short story festival. 23-26 September 2010
Thursday 23 September
Transformations
With Robin Black and Stella Duffy
Start: 6pm • Tickets: £7 (£6 Students)
Robin Black’s debut collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, is creating a big buzz. Selected by The Observer as ‘one to
watch’, it has been short listed for the prestigious Frank O’Connor
Award. Her stories, bulletins from the home front, are characterised
by the intrusion of the unexpected into everyday lives. She lives in
Philadelphia. Stella Duffy has published forty short stories. Her new
book, Theodora, is a colourful and compelling fictionalised account
of the legendary empress’ rise from nothing to supreme power.
Robin Black appears courtesy of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival.
Soundbites from the Big Apple
With Karen Russell and Hari Kunzru
Start: 8pm • Tickets: £7 (£6 Students)
Karen Russell has just been nominated as one of the New Yorker’s
Twenty Young Writers under 40 who capture the inventiveness and
vitality of contemporary American fiction. She also featured as one
of Granta’s Best Young American Writers. Her collection of stories,
St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, integrates mythology,
the supernatural and the mundane. Hari Kunzru has published a
collection of stories, Noise, and three novels, including My Revolutions.
His story, Memories of the Decadence, recently won a Pushcart Prize.
Both authors live in New York.
Karen Russell appears courtesy of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival.
Supported by Granta