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Donut County
Kate Lister Campbell
‘The fertility process is more like gambling than investment.’
Two women meet in an IVF clinic in this short story by Kate Lister Campbell.
Larger than an Orange
Lucy Burns
An excerpt from Larger than an Orange, a book by Lucy Burns about abortion.
Me, Rory and Aurora
Jonas Eika
A new story by Danish writer Jonas Eika, from the collection After the Sun. Translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg.
The Repeat Room
Jesse Ball
‘The place was so squat and pitiless, so endless, repetitive, fluorescent.’
Fiction by Jesse Ball.
Checkout 19
Claire-Louise Bennett
‘Month after month I ruefully drop the most perfect shade of red down the toilet and flush it away.’
An excerpt from Claire-Louise Bennett’s forthcoming novel.
Guard / Dear Katherine
Akwaeke Emezi
An excerpt from Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: a Black spirit memoir.
Ceremony of Innocence
Madeleine Bunting
A journalist receives a troubling call about a friend in this excerpt from Madeleine Bunting’s new novel Ceremony of Innocence.
I Cleaned the –
Kanya D’Almeida
Overall winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, as well as winner for the region of Asia.
Conversations
Natasha Brown
‘My mother was always telling me over the phone about people who had recently died.’
An excerpt from Natasha Brown’s debut novel.
If You Kept a Record of Sins
Andrea Bajani
‘It’s like a second gestation, like entering the world a second time.’
An excerpt from Andrea Bajani’s novel If You Kept a Record of Sins, available from Archipelago Books. Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris.
Second Place
Rachel Cusk
‘I stepped around as joyfully as a faun in a forest on the first day of creation.’
An excerpt from Rachel Cusk’s new novel.
Juancho, Baile
José Ardila
‘All of us connected by this kind of universal sunstroke.’
Fiction by José Ardila, translated by Lindsay Griffiths and Adrián Izquierdo.
