O Amor dos Homens Avulsos by Victor Heringer

He currently teaches in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.

A recent essay on transmasculinity and femininity, ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’, takes its title from a Muriel Spark ghost story and is collected in Queer Life, Queer Love. 'Home Death' was longlisted for the 2019/20 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Midland: A Novel Out of Time was shortlisted for the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize. Honor Gareth Gavin’s work moves between fiction, theory, and forms of creative criticism. His fiction and criticism have appeared in journals including Lunate, Necessary Fiction and 3AM Magazine, and he was the winner of the 2020 Aurora Prize for Writing. Trahearne Falvey writes about precarity, futurity and, increasingly, transcendence (despite being a thoroughly lapsed Catholic). In 2020 she completed the Goldsmiths MA in Creative & Life Writing through the Isaac Arthur Green Scholarship. Her work has appeared in publications including Best Small Fictions 2021, Litro Online, IFLA!, Brixton Review of Books, Lunate and Flash Fiction magazine. She is working on a book exploring Southern African women’s practice of Ubuntu in the diaspora. Her writing has appeared in multiple journals and anthologies, and her short story collection Mushrooms for my Mother and Other Stories was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize. Her work draws on African women’s experiences, at home and in the diaspora, and explores issues of home, Black womanhood, African women’s struggles, and triumphs over experiences of patriarchal repression, racism, colonialism and global exploitation. He is the founder of The Hastings Writers Workshop.Įthel Maqeda is a Zimbabwean British writer and theatre facilitator who foregrounds unheard narratives. He won the 2022 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize, and his translation of O amor dos homens avulsos by Victor Heringer will be published next year.

A writer and translator from Northern Ireland, his own short fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals and been shortlisted for the Bath, Wasafiri, Fish and Seán Ó Faoláin prizes. This event is chaired by Short Fiction editor James Young. The journal has previously published work by writers including Helen Oyeyemi, Kit de Waal and Marina Warner, and the Short Fiction/University of Essex International Short Story Prize attracts hundreds of entries from around the world each year. Each story is accompanied by an original, commissioned illustration. Launched in 2006, the journal publishes short stories from around the world by both new and established authors. The writers read and perform their works of short fiction over a tasting of snacks and sweets for audiences to enjoy in an event in collaboration with Short Fiction literary journal.

O Amor dos Homens Avulsos by Victor Heringer