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My second story collection
My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions
will be published in Spring 2012 by Tangent Books

Latest News:

I'm delighted that my short short story, The Beam Line,  is the winner of Diamond Light Reading's synchrotron-inspired flash fiction competition, and will be published in the winners' anthology! You can read the story here.

My story Into The Waiting Arms of God has been shortlisted for the Unbound Press/Spilling Ink Flash Fiction contest.


My poem, Dreams of a Tea Seller, has been commended in the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition.
 


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"These stories are acute, meticulous, memorable" Toby Litt

"This is as good as modern reading gets" Michael Brooks, NewScientist

"One of those rare instances of a sustained brilliance"
Bookbag


Commended, 2009 Orange Award for New Writers

"This collection exemplifies everything that is best about the short story
." Wet Ink Magazine

"...do yourself some good and get hold of a copy of Tania Hershman’s The White Road & Other Stories"Bookmunch

"
Props to Hershman for showing readers that not all short fiction is dull and formulaic" Front&Centre