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Bulgarian author Miroslav Penkov, who appeared at this Small Wonder in our GOING GLOBAL event, announced last night as winner of the £15.000 BBC International Short Story Award.

SMALL WONDER SHORTS: we now have more stories up on our short story blog site here.

listen to ‘Jackie Kay on making a short story workshop memorable at Charleston’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Short Story Slam host Damien Barr shares his tricks of the trade’ on Audioboo

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The Small Wonder signing table, ready for a glittering succesion of writers, speakers and performers to sign books at the end of each event ...
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Small Wonder kicked off with Jackie Kay and Kevin Barry 'bearing the tourch' for the short story.
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Benedict Hastings, Elinor Middleton and Barrett Robinson in Being Human ...'@John_Prebble: Feeling very human and inspired after @BeingHumanPoet at #SmallWonder ...'
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Friday; we came over all graphic. Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix talked to Martin Steenson about the beautiful and heatfelt graphic novel, Nelson.
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"@ComicOpera: Nelson editors inspired @BlankSlateBooks @mrphoenix @Robgog with @Steenton ably hosted @CharlestonTrust last night"
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It brought a slightly younger crowd to Charleston!
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And the gloomy weather only added to the atmoshphere.
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Meanwhile, in the Arabian Tent, a full house settled in for Screening Under the Stars with hot chocolate and popcorn.
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And back at the barn the crowds were settling in for our annual short story slam ...
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.. they enjoyed thirteen, three minute stories titled 'the final'.
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Saturday; and the whole site is ready for a packed day. "@AdamMarek: On my way to @CharlestonTrust. The sun always shines on Small Wonder. Always."
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D.W. Wilson, Roshi Fernando and Elanor Dymott started proceedings in the barn with Homesick.
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.. while our family animation workshop received an unexpected guest down at the Arabian Tent.
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Back at the barn, Joseph O'Connor had launched his first short story collection 'Where have you been' and was busy signing books.
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By which time the animation workshop had begun to yield results ...
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Susannah Clapp talked about the subversive Angela Carter. "@susannahclapp: Peerless reading of Angela Carter by Hattie Moranan #smallwonder @charlestontrust"
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And where once there was animation, a prohibition cocktail den appeared ...
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... loosening the crowd up for the highly entertaining Will Gompertz ...
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... who convinced this game group to re-enact Duchamp to the delight of a full house!

Photos courtesy of Axel Hesslenberg (c) Charleston Trust.

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