New Writing on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
On Marguerite Duras
Kate Zambreno
‘Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young.’ Kate Zambreno on Marguerite Duras.
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
What Feathers Know
Stephen Rutt
‘I see a gull in a car park and they can see the place where it metabolised water into feathers, food into energy, oxygen into blood.’ Stephen Rutt on what isotopes can tell us about birds.
Poetry|The Online Edition
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
An excerpt from Stephanie Sy-Quia’s Amnion, winner of the 2022 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, part of the Forward Prizes.
Poetry|Issue 156
Up Late
Nick Laird
‘I want the poem to destroy time. What are the ceremonies of forgetting?’ Winner of the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
Poetry|The Online Edition
Four Poems
Katie Farris
‘Ungraceful, the heart boinks: / drugged, suspended, spiderwebbed – ’ Four poems by Katie Farris.
Middle Ground
Georgina Parfitt
‘At school, the primroses were coming out. Brighton was eleven, and every day now there was something new emerging.’
A story by Georgina Parfitt.
Podcast | Stephanie Sy-Quia
Stephanie Sy-Qyia
‘Empires fall like milk teeth.’
Stephanie Sy-Quia on her collection Amnion.
Granta 161: Sister, Brother
Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta tells a different story – one of chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break.
Interview
Daisy Lafarge
‘The earliest life on the planet was life without air, anaerobic bacteria that slowly died off when oxygen began to pollute the atmosphere’.
Highlights From Granta Books
From the Archive
An Evening of Martyrdom
Golnoosh Nour
New fiction from Golnoosh Nour’s debut collection about the lives of young, queer Iranians.
Recommended Reading
On Sizewell C
William Atkins
‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’
William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.
Nancy’s Victory
Diane Williams
‘She saw a small swatch of pink and supposed a sunset was out there and thought, What can that knockout pink do for me?’
New fiction by Diane Williams.
Small Girl Landlady
Adachioma Ezeano
‘Trouble was awake – we didn’t need anyone to tell us.’
New fiction by Adachioma Ezeano.
The Blake Fellowship
Timothy Ogene
‘They call it POC here, you know, People of Colour.’
An excerpt from Timothy Ogene’s satire, Seesaw.
News, Prizes and Events
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Wars of the Interior Shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclán
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez and Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate are shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclán prize, which celebrates translations into English from Spanish.
Nick Laird Wins Forward Prize for Best Single Poem
Nick Laird has won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for his elegy ‘Up Late’, first published in Granta 156.
Stephanie Sy-Quia Wins Forward Prize
Stephanie Sy-Quia’s Amnion is the winner of the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection at the 2022 Forward Prizes.
