A Personal Anthology

A Personal Anthology

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A Personal Anthology, by Gabriel Flynn
I selected the twelve stories in this anthology with the following test in mind: if I were to arrive at a secluded holiday rental and discover I had…
A Personal Anthology, by Robert Loyko-Greer
Eight years ago in 2017, I was working for a bookshop called Desperate Literature in Madrid and living in a small room in the back of the shop.
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A Personal Anthology, by Gerard Woodward
In selecting the stories that have been most important to me over the years, it’s slightly disconcerting to note how many of them deal with instances of…
A Personal Anthology, by Henry Woodland
Some of the short stories I have chosen were not published as short stories.
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May 2025

An Animal Personal Anthology, by Charlotte Tierney
Animals might be considered, broadly, unsophisticated and unremarkable, while also being cosmically bananas, like the rest of the natural world.
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A Personal Anthology, by Jevon Heath
I think of myself as a good reader and a bad writer.
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A Personal Anthology, by Raffaella Sero
I write this sitting in the gardens of Newnham College.
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A Personal Anthology, by Rue Baldry
I hope you will enjoy this mix of stories, which I have selected and ordered as though it were a published anthology.

April 2025

A Personal Anthology, by Cherry Potts
There was quite a temptation to pick from stories I have published, but I thought, No, that is cheating. And anyway, there are books I treasure, and I…
A Personal Anthology, by Marni Appleton
Before my short story collection was published, it was part of a PhD thesis on ‘postfeminist feeling in contemporary women’s short stories’.
A Personal Anthology, by Elizabeth Stott
The short story is flourishing in the 21st century.
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A Personal Anthology, by Jan Kaneen
I love short stories, have done since childhood and I’ve spent loads of time over the last five decades bingeing on the likes of Daphne Du Maurier, John…
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