Harlot red : prize winning short stories by women / edited by Carole Buchan and Kate Pullinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buchan, Carole.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, English.

Short stories--Women authors.

Short stories.

Genre:

Short stories, English.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

vii, 210 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Serpent's Tail, 2002.

Summary:

In 2001, the Asham Literary Trust organized the third bl-annual competition of short stories by women in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived. The competition attracted over nine hundred entries of which the judges selected 12 which are published here, together with commissioned stories by Louise Doughty, Patricia Duncker, A.L. Kennedy, Elena Lappin, Kate Pullinger and Carol Shields. The result is a collection of stories that successfully blends the work of established writers with new authors and taken together represents the very best of contemporary short story writing.

Contents:

Here's / Carol Shields 1

Harlot Red / Magi Gibson 10

Prospect House / Frances Childs 19

The Master and the Maid / Jenny Mitchell 29

Fur Coats / Kate Pullinger 37

The Night Shift / Georgia Moseley 51

Killing Guinevere / Fiona Curnow 63

A Wrong Thing / A.L. Kennedy 75

Yanks / Jo Campbell 90

Lost Boys / Linda Leatherbarrow 105

Goin' Dancin' / Rowena Macdonald 115

/ Generation, Louise Doughty 130

Trophy Widows / Elena Lappin 137

'East Mountain's All Borrowed Light' / Ling E. Teo 144

Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake / Tania Casselle 156

The Second Coming of Sara Montiel / Patricia Duncker 165

Jacob's Tree / Ravai Marindo 179

Requiem / Leila Keys 192.

ISBN:

1852428155

OCLC:

48931075