New Writing on Granta.com
In Conversation|The Online Edition
Podcast | Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh
‘Imagine if an alien came to earth and asked, so how to you reproduce?’
We discuss Blue Ticket and the body horror of motherhood.
Fiction|The Online Edition
Larger Than the Night
Masatsugu Ono
Translated by David Boyd
‘The night was sealed off completely – or so it seemed.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
The Only Way Out Is Through
Hana Pera Aoake
‘Hiding in kumara pits on the side of volcanoes, I was born with an egg inside me ready to be baked.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Four Poems
Bill Manhire
‘There is only one of me, she says, / but we all know there are two.’
Slobber and Drool
Jess Arndt
‘My face, not the glass, was blurry. I had no idea what I really looked like besides lumpy, fuzzy, profuse.’
It Was a Dog
Amaryllis Gacioppo
‘She liked to eat until her thighs felt gelatinous and slick with sweat, and her stomach ballooned out, sore and firm as though she had drunk cement that had now set.’
Granta 152: Still Life
‘After so many years of feeling that some Event was due, that something vast must surely happen, something vast happened. Is happening.’ from ‘Spring’ by China Miéville.
This issue reflects on confinement, escape and paying attention, as writers and artists respond to the pandemic.
True Story
Toyin Ojih Odutola & Yaa Gyasi
‘What if our art had not been stolen, our people not enslaved? What if we imagined a good story, a righteous and just story, and then we worked to make it true?’
Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness?
Kevin Brazil
‘You never can wholly control the things you cling to. But you can figure out what has made you the surface you are.’
Highlights From Granta Books
Recommended Reading
Three Poems
Hannah Regel
‘It makes no difference / If the devil has been defeated or if it is your character’
Three Poems
Vivek Narayanan
‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsistence’
News, Prizes and Events
Three Granta Winners of Pushcart Prize XLV
Stories by Julia Armfield and David Means, and an essay by Poppy Sebag-Montefiore have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XLV.
Daniel O’Malley and Alexia Tolas Shortlisted for 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Two stories published by Granta are shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.
Thea Lim in Best Canadian Stories 2020
‘If You Start Breathing’ by Thea Lim has been selected to feature in Best Canadian Stories 2020.
