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A Personal Anthology, by Lindz McLeod
As a writer myself, I seek originality and excellence in craft as well as narrative accessibility in the work I read; it’s a rare story that can…
A Personal Anthology, by Tom Vowler
If you enjoy A Personal Anthology, you might enjoy Creative Digest, a new Substack from the Creative Writing team at City, University of London, which…
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A Personal Anthology, by Teika Marija Smits
Introduction As a fan of the theories of Carl Jung, I very much appreciate the way Christopher Booker (The Seven Basic Plots) and Clarissa Pinkola Estés…
A Personal Anthology, by Ian Patterson
These are not the best short stories ever, nor are they representative of anything apart from themselves. I’ve read hundreds of others that clamoured to…
August 2023
Occasional hors-série Personal Anthology: Susan Sontag's 'ideal' anthology
A Personal Anthology remains on holiday until September, when the weekly mail-out returns – some exciting names already lined up! – but I couldn’t…
June 2023
A Personal Anthology Collaborative Summer Special 2023
Welcome to the fifth seasonal Collaborative Summer Special Personal Anthology, with a batch of summer-themed (though not necessarily sunny) short…
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Call for contributions: collaborative summer special
This is a special midweek mailout from A Personal Anthology. Ever since the project started in 2017 we’ve paused for the months of June and July, and…
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A Personal Anthology, by Keiron Pim
‘Hodel’, by Sholom Aleichem, translated by Julius and Frances Butwin (First published as ‘Hodl’ in Yiddish in 1894; first published in translation in…
A Personal Anthology, by John Grindrod
These stories each use ideas of place differently, whether to signal class or status, insecurity or transience, human connection or violence, satire or…
A Personal Anthology, by Vincent Scarpa
As others have written in their introductions to this project, before I could begin selecting the stories I chose below, I had to exhaust myself of…
A Personal Anthology, by Timna Fibert
The short story I think of most often was about a woman whose house was damp whilst she was getting a divorce. It was written in sentence-long…
May 2023
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