In the twelfth episode of the MIR Podcast, Peter J Coles is in Brick Lane Bookshop with the winner of their short story prize James Mitchell, and the head of the prize, Kate Ellis. They discuss what it takes to craft a winning short story, issues surrounding writing the ‘other’, and helpful advice on entering the 2020 short story prize.
Show Notes:
Brick Lane Bookshop
Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2020
ASMR
Birkbeck MA Creative Writing
American Dirt Controversy
Judges: Chris Power, Harriet Moore, Kit Caless, Sharmaine Lovegrove
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer
Weather by Jenny Offill
In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Cut on Tuesdays – The Woman of Your Dreams
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Tenth of December by George Saunders
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
This podcast was produced and edited by Christina Carè and Peter J Coles