The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize has just announced its longlisted short story collections. As ever, it is a great list to start with if you're looking for some great reading material! As they say on their website, the award "is living up to its international credentials with a long list containing twelve UK writers, twenty-six Americans, four Irish, eight from Canada, two from India, two from Bulgaria and one each from Japan, Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, China, Nepal and Spain, spanning four continents."
The non-voting chairman of the 2011 jury is Patrick Cotter, curator of the Award. The voting members of the jury are poet and novelist Thomas McCarthy who served also on the 2006 jury, Kinsale-based novelist and short story writer Alannah Hopkin and Guardian short story blogger Chris Power. This jury will announce a short list in July prior to the award ceremony in September during the Cork International Short Story Festival.
The longlist is as follows (with links to those collections The Short Review has already reviewed):
Clark Blaise The Meagre Tarmac Biblioasis USA
Summer Brenner My Life in Clothes Red Hen Press USA
Jo Cannon Insignificant Gestures Pewter Rose Press UK
Uttara Chauhan Blue Blood Penguin India Canada
Michael Christie The Beggar's Garden HarperCollins Canada Canada
Richard Cumyn The Young in Their Country Enfield and Wizenty Canada
Anthony Doerr Memory Wall Fourth Estate USA review coming soon
Doug Dorst The Surf Guru Riverhead Books USA
Deyan Enev Circus Bulgaria Portobello Bulgaria
Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Riverhead Books USA
Stuart Evers Ten Stories about Smoking Picador UK
Edward Falco Burning Man Southern Methodist University Press USA
Siobhan Fallon You Know When the Men Are Gone Amy Einhorn Books USA
Roshi Fernando Homesick Impress UK
Karen Joy Fowler What I Didn't See Small Beer USA review coming soon
Vanessa Gebbie Storm Warning Salt UK review coming soon
Sue Gee Last Fling Salt UK
Ben Greenman Celebrity Chekhov Harper Perennial USA
Linda LeGarde Grover The Dance Boots University of Georgia Press USA
Tina May Hall The Physics of Imaginary Objects University of Pittsburgh Press USA review coming soon
Alan Heathcock Volt Graywolf USA
Ava Homa Echoes from the Other Land Tsar Canada
Valerie Laken Separate Kingdoms Harper Perennial USA
Yiyun Li Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Random House/ Fourth Estate China
Michael Kardos One Last Good Time Press 53 USA
Gitanjali Kolanad Sleeping with Movie Stars Penguin India India
Sean Mackel The River Guildhall Ireland
Alexander MacLeod Light Lifting Biblioasis Canada
Andre Mangeot True North Salt UK
Javier Marías While the Women are Sleeping Chatto and Windus Spain
Rob Mimpriss For His Warriors Gwasg y Bwthyn UK review coming soon
Mariko Nagai Georgic BkMk Japan
Prem Nath Crowded Rooms Penguin India India
Courttia Newland A Book of Blues Flambard UK review coming soon
Edna O'Brien Saints and Sinners Faber Ireland
Daniel Orozco Orientation Faber USA
Sue Orr Random House New Zealand New Zealand
E.C.Osondu Voice of America Granta Books Nigeria
Kelcey Parker For Sale By Owner Kore USA
Miroslav Penkov East of the West Farrar, Straus & Giroux Bulgaria
Anne Perdue I'm a Registered Nurse Not a Whore Insomniac Canada
Andrew Plattner A Marriage of Convenience BkMk USA
Dawn Promislow Jewels Tsar Canada
Shann Ray American Masculine Graywolf USA
Mary Rechner Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women Propeller USA
Susannah Rickards Hot Kitchen Snow Salt UK
Suzanne Rivecca Death is Not an Option Norton USA
Moya Roddy Other People Wordsonthestreet Ireland
Ethel Rohan Cut Through the Bone Dark Sky Books Ireland
Gretchen Shirm Having Cried Wolf Affirm Australian
L.E. Smith Views Cost Extra Fomite USA
Christine Sneed Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry University of Massachusetts Press USA
Fiona Thackeray The Secret's in the Folding Pewter Rose Press UK
Rabi Thapa Nothing to Declare Penguin India Nepal
Colm Tóibín The Empty Family Viking Penguin Ireland
Matthew J. Trafford The Divinity Gene Douglas & McIntyre Canada
Jessica Treadway Please Come Back to Me University of Georgia Press USA
Paul Tremblay In the Mean Time ChiZine Publications USA
Valerie Trueblood Marry or Burn Counterpoint USA
Salley Vickers Aphrodite's Hat Fourth Estate UK review coming soon
Ferdinand Von Schirach Crime Chatto and Windus Germany
Tom Vowler The Method Salt UK
Susi Wyss The Civilized World Holt USA
