Cork City - Frank O’Connor Short Story Award Longlist

Here's the longlist of short story collections for the 2010 Cork City - Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, now in its sixth year. Say the organisers:

"The longlist is almost evenly split between women and men this year with 28 men and 26 women. The strength of the short story in the United States is reflected by that country’s overwhelming number of 21 longlistees. This year is also noted for a surge of entries from Asia, accounting for one fifth of all titles. There are three Irish nominees this year including Nuala Ni Chonchuir, the first author to be longlisted for the third time."

Congratulations indeed to Nuala, who is a Short Review reviewer as well as a reviewee! We have reviewed a number of these collections already, links provided. The shortlist will be announced on July 6th.

1	Temsula Ao (India)	Laburnum	Penguin
2	Richard Bausch (USA)	Something is out there: Stories by Richard Bausch	Alfred A. Knopf
3	Martin Bax (UK)	Memoirs of a Gone World	Salt
4	Pinckney Benedict (USA)	Miracle Boy and Other Stories	Press 53
5	Louis de Bernières (UK)	Notwithstanding	Harvill Secker
6	Belle Boggs (USA)	Mattaponi Queen: stories	Graywolf Press
7	T.C. Boyle (USA)	Wild Child	Bloomsbury
8	O Thiam Chin (Singapore)	Never Been Better	MPH  Publishing
9	Kunzang Choden (Bhutan)	Tales in Colour and Other Stories	Zubaan – Penguin
10	Craig Cliff (New Zealand)	A Man Melting	Vintage – Random House
11	Venita Coelho (India)	The Washer of the Dead	Zubaan – Penguin
12	Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Ireland)	Nude	Salt  - also longlisted for the Edge Hill prize
13	David Constantine (UK)	The Shieling	Comma Press also longlisted for the Edge Hill prize
14	Jameson Currier (USA)	The Haunted Heart and Other Tales	Lethe Press
15	Brian Joseph Davies (Canada)	Ronald Reagan, My Father	ECW Press
16	Deyan Enev (Bulgaria)	Circus Bulgaria	Portobello Books
17	Anne Finger (USA)	Call The Ahab	University of Nebraska Press
18	Patrick Gale (UK)	Gentleman’s Relish	Fourth Estate also longlisted for the Edge Hill prize
19	Angelica Garnett (UK)	The Unspoken Truth	Chatto and Windus – Random House
20	Holly Goddard Jones (USA)	Girl Trouble	Harper Perennial
21	Perry Glasser (USA)	Dangerous Places	BkMk Press
22	Alyson Hagy (USA)	Ghosts of Wyoming	Graywolf Press
23	Dhruba Hazarika (India)	Luck	Penguin
24	Mark Illis (UK)	Tender	Salt also longlisted for the Edge Hill prize
25	Barb Johnson (USA)	More of This World or Maybe Another	Harper Perennial *review coming soon*
26	Lorraine M. López (USA)	Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories	BkMk Press, *review coming soon*
27	Thomas Lynch (USA)	Apparition and Late Fictions: a novella and stories	Jonathan Cape – Random House *review coming soon*
28	Paul Magrs (UK)	Twelve Stories	Salt *review coming soon*
29	Martin Malone (Ireland)	The Mango War: and other stories	New Island
30	Owen Marshall (New Zealand)	Living as a Moon	Vintage – Random House
31	Donal McLaughlin (Northern Ireland)	An Allergic Reaction to National Anthems	Argyll Publishing
32	Lori Ostlund (USA)	The Bigness of the world	University of Georgia Press
33	Manoj  Kumar Panda (India)	The Bone Garden and Other Stories	Rupantar
34	Wena Poon (Singapore)	The Proper Care of Foxes	Ethos Books
35	Dawn Raffel (USA)	Further Adventures in the Restless Universe	Dzanc Books
36	Mahmud Rahman (Bangladesh)	Killing the Water	Penguin
37	Ron Rash (USA)	Burning Bright	Ecco; Harper Collins
38	Peter Robinson (UK)	The Price Of Love: And Other Stories	McClelland and Stewart
39	Anne Sanow (USA)	Triple Time	Pittsburgh University Press
40	Sarah Selecky (Canada)	This Cake Is for the Party	Thomas Allen Publishers
41	Bubul Sharma (India)	Eating Women, Telling Tales: Stories about Food	Zubaan - Penguin
42	Robert Shearman (UK)	Love songs for the shy and cynical	Big Finish also longlisted for the Edge Hill prize
43	Sam Sheppard (USA)	Day out of Days	Alfred A. Knopf
44	Anis Shivani (USA)	Anatolia and Other Stories	Black Lawrence Press
45	Louise Stern (USA)	Chattering: Stories	Granta
46	Kalpana Swaminathan (India)	Venus Crossing	Penguin
47	Justin Taylor (USA)	Everything here is the best thing ever	Harper Perennial
48	Ruth Thomas (UK)	Super Girl	Faber and Faber
49	Laura van den Berg (USA)	What the world will look like when all the water leaves us	Dzanc Books *review coming soon*
50	David T. K. Wong (China)	Chinese Stories in Times of Change	Asian Stories - Muse
51	Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands)	How To Escape From A Leper Colony	Graywolf Press
52	Michele Roberts (UK)	Mud: Stories of Sex and Love	Little Brown
53	Helen Simpson (UK)	In-Flight Entertainment	Cape
54	Billie Livingston (Canada)	Greedy Little Eyes	Random House Canada

Edge Hill Short Story Prize Longlist Announced

The Edge Hill Short Story Prize, now in its third year, is the UK's only literary award that recognises a published collection of short stories, and this year they have announced a longlist of 18 titles, which will be whittled down to a shortlist.  Ailsa Cox, the organizer of the prize, gave us a sneak peak behind the scenes last year here on the blog and Chris Beckett, last year's winner and one of this year's judges, talked about his relationship with UK magazine Interzone here.

The longlist of 18 contains 9 authors we've reviewed, so click on the links to find out more about what TSR's reviewers thought. Good luck to all!

• Regi Claire - Fighting It (Two Ravens Press).
• David Constantine - The Sheiling (Comma Press). 
• Jeremy Dyson - The Cranes that Build Cranes (Little Brown). 
• Jane Feaver - with Love Me Tender (Random House).
• Patrick Gale - Gentleman's Relish (Harper Collins).
• Sian Hughes - The Beach Hut (Biscuit Publishing). 
• Mark Illis - Tender (Salt Publishing). 
• A.L. Kennedy - What Becomes (Jonathan Cape).
• Tom Lee - Greenfly (Harvill Secker).
• Michael J Farrell - Life in the Universe (The Stinging Fly). 
• Ben Moor - More Trees To Climb (Portobello). 
• Nuala Ní Chonchúir - Nude (Salt Publishing).
• Philip O Ceallaigh - The Pleasant Light of Day (Penguin).
• Robert Shearman - Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical(Big Finish)
• Charles Stross - Wireless (Little Brown).
• Craig Taylor - One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Bloomsbury).
• Douglas Thompson - Ultrameta (Eibonvale Press).
• Simon Van Booy - Love Begins in Winter (Beautiful Books).