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Notes on Craft|The Online Edition
Notes on Craft
Missouri Williams
‘After a series of seizures in my temporal lobe, I started to forget words and say sentences backwards.’
Missouri Williams on the drive to circle back.
Granta Books Writing|The Online Edition
Scattered All Over the Earth
Yoko Tawada
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
‘I’d never once called a TV station, or had the courage to set out to meet someone out of the blue.’ An excerpt from Yoko Tawada’s new novel, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
Fiction|The Online Edition
and the earth drank deep
Ntsika Kota
‘He found his own breathing was harder now than before, and his heart was pounding.’ Ntsika Kota is the winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa.
In Conversation|The Online Edition
In Conversation
Leslie Jamison & Margo Jefferson
‘The self is the work of art. Criticism puts that self in the service of other art.’ Leslie Jamison and Margo Jefferson discuss the multiplicity of the self, the idea of necessity, and how to work with what you lack.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
The Stars Are Blind
Anna Dorn
‘A few years ago, while between jobs, I started doing astrology readings for cash.’ Anna Dorn on her astrology journey.
Welcome to the New World
Jessi Jezewska Stevens
New fiction from Jessi Jezewska Stevens. ‘Debt is the molten bedrock upon which all else shifts.’
Abandonment
Ralf Webb
‘I sensed that as she listened she looked right through my skull and saw the cringing figure living there, the figure that keeps guard over all my secret strategies and disguises.’
New fiction from Ralf Webb.
Three Poems
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
‘create a national holiday in your namelessness, in my head.’
Poems from the author’s debut collection Quiet.
Granta 159: What Do You See?
Granta 159: What Do You See? features William Atkins on Sizewell C, the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk; travel essays by Jason Allen-Paisant and Ishion Hutchinson, memoir by Kevin Childs, Geoff Dyer, Alejandro Zambra (translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) and Lars Horn.
Fiction by Adam Foulds, Andrew Holleran and Maxim Osipov (translated from the Russian by Alex Fleming) and Rebecca Sollom.
Photography by Phalonne Pierre Louis; Raphaela Rosella, introduced by Nicole R. Fleetwood; and Muhammad Salah, introduced by Esther Kinsky. Cover image by Suzie Howell.
Two Poems
Beth Bachmann
‘Under the skin, our skeletons / are braided with tendons – roses on an openwork arch’ Two poems by Beth Bachmann
A World Run by Mothers
Saba Sams
‘In all the years I spent dreaming of motherhood, not once did I dream of men. If anything, I expected that romance would be my downfall.’
Saba Sams on the women who raised her, and becoming a mother at 22.
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Personal Growth
Marina Benjamin
‘Refusal is the last recourse of the powerless.’
Marina Benjamin on her years of not eating, and not growing.
Small Girl Landlady
Adachioma Ezeano
‘Trouble was awake – we didn’t need anyone to tell us.’
New fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
Beautiful Short Loser
Ocean Vuong
‘For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’
A new poem by Ocean Vuong.
The Forgotten War
Leila Guerriero
Leila Guerriero investigates the collusion that left so many graves unmarked decades after the Falklands War.
News, Prizes and Events
‘Up Late’ and Amnion Shortlisted for 2022 Forward Prizes
‘Up Late’ by Nick Laird and Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia have been shortlisted for 2022 Forward Prizes for Poetry. Granta has also published poetry by other shortlisted writers: Kaveh Akbar, Shane McCrae, Helen Mort, Carl Phillips and Padraig Regan.
Michel Nieva and Natasha Wimmer winners of 2022 O. Henry Prize
‘Dengue Boy’ by Michel Nieva, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, is a winner of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction.
The Invisible Land Wins the Scott Moncrieff Prize
Sam Taylor's translation of The Invisible Land by Hubert Mingarelli has won the Society of Authors Scott Moncrieff Prize 2021.
