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A Personal Anthology, by Neil D. A. Stewart
This is a selection of stories (and one song) that have lived in my memory since reading them, in some cases for twenty years or more, in others for a…
A Personal Anthology, by Melissa McCarthy
I met someone.

June 2024

A Personal Anthology, by Bojan Louis
Some of these stories inspired and guided the style of my debut collection of short stories, Sinking Bell, and others have shown me the future of what…
A Personal Anthology, by Julian Girdham
I have been teaching teenagers English for almost 40 years, and my selection here is of short stories which work well in the classroom.
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A Personal Anthology, by Lucy Weldon
Surprisingly, it didn’t take me long to find the criteria to select my twelve short stories.
A Personal Anthology, by Claire Carroll
I wrote a collection of stories, The Unreliable Nature Writer, which is about love, the climate crisis and the weirdness that lurks at the intersection…

May 2024

A Personal Anthology, by Susan Maxwell
What constitutes a short story?
A Personal Anthology, by Daniel Fraser
Every true work of literature re-asks the question of what it means to tell a story.
A Personal Anthology, by Stephen Moran
I’ve been the filter reader for the Willesden Herald short story competition and its New Short Stories book series for getting on for 20 years.
A Personal Anthology, by Camilla Grudova
These are all stories that either a long time ago, or more recently, sparked something in me, and which I think of often, not only when trying to write…
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A Personal Anthology, by Rosa Rogers
In one of my selected stories, an unnamed narrator is asked what she's been reading lately.

April 2024

A Personal Anthology, by Tim Jeffreys
Though I consider myself a horror writer, I’m not a big reader of genre fiction.
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