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Fiction|The Online Edition
‘Doe Lea’
M. John Harrison
‘He was already suffering the attacks that would characterise the later stages of the illness, during which lights seemed to dance on the surface of everything. They were blue, lilac, pink and green, he said.’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Knickers
Colwill Brown
‘They’d practiced it ont bus into town: to mek sure Kel gorrin, they’d go past bouncer together, talking reyt loud about periods, so he wouldn’t even bother asking Kel her date of birth.’
Art & Photography|The Online Edition
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?’
In Conversation|The Online Edition
In Conversation
Anthony Caleshu & Peter Gizzi
‘Words are haunted. Think of it: as long as there have been soldiers there have been poets. I have often felt that being a poet is a form of civil disobedience.’
Fiction|The Online Edition
The Celebration
Cathy Sweeney
‘I had just come home from boarding school when Father took me aside and told me that Mother was up to her old antics, letting the whole family down, and that if she continued, we’d have to act.’
Feeling Bullish: On My Great-Uncle, Gay Matador and Friend of Hemingway
Rebekah Frumkin
‘In his suit, with his pigtail and his montera, he was pure potential: he could be masculine vanquisher or gold-embroidered fairy. He was both, actually, at all times, and nobody who came to see him fight thought any less of him for it.’
In Conversation
Morgan Parker & Rachel Long
‘Everyone should be thinking about how they do their thing specifically, how they can use their influences combined with their own language, music and experience.’
Forced Out
Kevin Maxwell
An excerpt from Kevin Maxwell’s exposé of structural racism in the British police force.
Given
Jesmyn Ward
‘Given played football with single-minded purpose his senior year, the fall before he died.’
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Soon Comes Night
Ekow Eshun
‘I’d become so used to hiding away inside myself I couldn’t respond with any spontaneity. I was stuck in the shallows of my emotions.’
The Recall of Herman Harcourt
Colin Grant
‘I had the queer feeling of looking into a mirror of the projected future, of perhaps seeing how easily his fall could be a rehearsal for my own.’
Potted Meat
Steven Dunn
‘My cousin is an artist. He says, You draw some good knives but you still need to work on your stab wounds.’
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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.
Joseph Leo Koerner in Best American Essays 2020
Joseph Leo Koerner’s essay ‘Maly Trostinets’ has been selected to feature in Best American Essays 2020.
