New Writing on Granta.com
Fiction|The Online Edition
They Tell You They Love You
Niamh Donnelly
‘Sometimes, in the shower, he finds new and surprising bruises, whose origin he can’t place.’ A story by Niamh Donnelly.
Poetry|The Online Edition
Three Poems
Cecilia Knapp
Three poems from Cecilia Knapp’s poetry collection, Peach Pig.
Fiction|Issue 56
Nadine at Forty
Hilary Mantel
‘Each day we re-enact, on ourselves, what was done to us.’ Fiction by Hilary Mantel.
Fiction|Issue 63
Destroyed
Hilary Mantel
‘When I was very small, small enough to trip every time on the raised kerbstone outside the back door, the dog Victor used to take me for a walk.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
On Silk
Sally Wen Mao
‘At the silk museum, / the silkworms crumpled themselves in baskets, / lazy and dazed in the spoils of mulberry.’ A poem by Sally Wen Mao.
An Excerpt from Distance Sickness
Jenny Xie
‘To relive is the snarl of description, worked over repeatedly in the mind’
A poem by Jenny Xie.
In Conversation
Momtaza Mehri & Warsan Shire
Momtaza Mehri and Warsan Shire talk about nineties London, parentification and diasporic inheritances.
Comfy
Edward Herring
‘Who needs a bed? he said one night. He was drinking beer out of an old dirty pickle jar.’
New fiction by Edward Herring
Granta 160: Conflict
Granta 160: Conflict features Lindsey Hilsum and Volodymyr Rafeyenko (tr. Sasha Dugdale) on the war in Ukraine, but the theme of conflict is internal as well as external. This issue also includes memoir by Janet Malcolm, Sarah Moss, Suzanne Scanlon, and essays by Rebecca May Johnson, George Prochnik, Daniel Trilling and Sana Valiulina (tr. Polly Gannon).
Fiction by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, Jane Delury and Dizz Tate and poetry by Rae Armantrout, Sandra Cisneros and Peter Gizzi. Photography by Aline Deschamps (introduced by Rattawut Lapcharoensap) and Thomas Duffield.
Two Poems
Emily Berry
‘I do not see / the slow wheels in my blood turning, but / I ride them’
Two poems by Emily Berry.
Three Poems
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
‘create a national holiday in your namelessness, in my head.’
Poems from the author’s debut collection Quiet.
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
Nights at the Hotel Splendido
Sam Munson
‘Everybody’s face looks different at night, especially outside. You see their real faces.’
A new story by Sam Munson.
E-Friends
Emily Adrian
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’
New fiction by Emily Adrian.
Signal
Zakia Uddin
‘I had begun to google the therapist reflexively whenever I was bored.’
A short story by Zakia Uddin.
A Page Pounded Clean
Kathryn Scanlan
‘There was no shriek, no gore, but the tail – it looked electrically charged.’
A story by Kathryn Scanlan.
News, Prizes and Events
Amnion and Garden Physic Longlisted for the Laurel Prize
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia and Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris have been longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022
Constructing a Nervous System Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson has been shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize .
Noel O’Regan recipient of Arts Council 2022 Next Generation award
Noel O'Regan, author of Though the Bodies Fall, is a recipient of the Arts Council 2022 Next Generation award, awarded to promising emerging artists across all disciplines.
