My first book,
The White
Road and Other
Stories
is
published by Salt
Modern Fiction and was commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award
for New Writers.
Visit
the book's website for more. |
I am short-story-writer-in-residence at Bristol
University's Faculty of Science.
BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a week of my flash fiction in June 2010. More details soon.
MARCH
Mugs
is included in the wonderful 100 Stories for Haiti anthology, whose
proceeds are donated to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Please buy a copy now and support the cause.
Think of Icebergs and London
Park are published in Litro's March "Climate" issue.
FEB
Two flash stories I wrote inspired by the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, She Herself Was Gone and Of Fish and Bread and Tea, have been accepted for the next issue of the Horizon Review.
Think of Icebergs and London Park have been accepted for Litro's March "Climate" issue.
Plaits has been accepted for Short Fuse's March 10th hair-themed reading event!
Exchange Rates, a play I
adapted from my short story, won the Total Beast 6-minute play competition and was
performed in London on
31st January 2010.
JAN
I have recently posted a (non-complete) 2010 list of UK & Ireland lit mags that publish short stories on my blog. which may be of interest to short story writers.
I am the current Fiction Editor of Southword magazine, one of the judges for both the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Brit Writers' Awards. Click on the links for more about how to submit.
My Article on the joys of short stories, "Stopping to Smell the Miniature Roses" is published in Bellatrista.
Exchange Rates, a play I adapted from my short story, is a finalist in the Total Beast 6-minute play competition and will be performed, together with the other shortlisted entries, in London on 31st January 2010. For more details, click here.
2009
DEC
My story, My Mother Was an Upright Piano, winner of the Binnacle's 2009 Ultra Short competition, has been nominated by the Binnacle for a Pushcart Prize.
Tues Dec 15th 6.30pm-9pm: I read alongside some of the excellent contributors to Short Circuit: The Guide to the Art of the Short Story at Ride the Word.
Where: Cafe Yumcha 45 Berwick St, Soho, London.
My essay on writing flash fiction is included in Short Cicuit,
the brand-new Guide to the Art of the Short Story, published by Salt
and edited by Vanessa Gebbie. The book contains articles and essays by
many prize-winning short story writers. See the BOOKS page for more.
I am the new Fiction Editor of Southword magazine, one of the judges for both the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Brit Writers' Awards. Click on the links for more about how to submit.
My story, Under the Tree, has been accepted for publication by Electric Velocipede magazine.
NOV
My story, Straight Up, has been highly commended in the 2009 Aesthetica Creative Works competition.
On Nov 22nd I have been invited to host the first of a new series of
events to boost emerging Jewish writers, Speaking from Experience. To
submit your work for a chance to present on the night, email
submissions@speakingexperience.com If you just want to come and listen:
Please do! For any queries, contact: info@speakingexperience.com
OCT
The short screenplay I wrote based on my story North Cold is a finalist in the Waterford Film Festival Short Screenplay competition. Winners announced Nov 8th!
My flash story, Vegetable, Mineral, is a finalist in the PANK magazine 1,001 Awesome words competition and will be published.
SEPT
Two new reviews of The White Road and Other Stories:
"Whether you’re a fan of short stories or not, do yourself some good and get hold of a copy of Tania Hershman’s The White Road & Other Stories.
If enough of us do that, then maybe Salt will ask her for another
collection and that would be a very good thing indeed," says Bookmunch.
"The eponymous story of this collection is worth the price of
admission. It is, without a doubt, one of the best short stories I’ve
ever read," says PANK magazine.
See the White
Road and Other Stories reviews
page for more.
AUGUST
Two flash stories, Inchworms and She is Misled,
published in The Pedestal
magazine.
My story Missy, published in
PANK magazine, has been nominated by PANK for the 2009 Best of the Net
anthology.
Two stories, She is
Misled and Inchworms,
have been accepted for Pedestal Magazine's August issue.
Two flash stories, The Mathematics of Sunshine
and Transparent,
are published in the latest issue of The London Magazine
Two stories, Unnaming
and It Begins with Birds in Flight,
and a poem, Ending,
She is Blue,
are published in Metazen.
JULY
My flash story, My Mother Was an Upright Piano,
is the Grand Prize Winner of the Sixth Binnacle Ultra-Short Story
Competition.
My
first
published poem, Baby
in a Jar, is published in Contrary's Summer Issue.
Plagiarism
is a serious problem that can, and does, affect
fiction writers. It is something we all need to be aware of when
sharing unpublished work, and
prevent ourselves from doing unwittingly to others. See the blog post I wrote
on Anti-Plagiarism Day,
July 17th, and read about other people's experiences.
JUNE
My poem, Baby in a Jar, has
been accepted for publication by Contrary magazine.
MAY
I
am delighted to be one of 20 authors published in a book of short
stories and the photographs that inspired them, whose profits go to the
Alzheimer's Society. For more details see my blog.
The
White Road and Other Stories is longlisted for the prestigious
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
My prose poem, Up far and
Everywhere, is published in the latest issue of Elimae. See the FICTION page for links to
online stories.
As part of the Emerging Writers Network's Short Story Month, Dan Wickett
discusses my story, On A Roll, from The White Road
and Other Stories:
...
Hershman hits the reader with a blow to the temple about 85% of the way
through with the inclusion of a
paragraph about her personal history. It's a subtle weaving
in of
almost an explanation for the unnamed narrator's actions...."
Read the full blog post
My story,
Come Back Tomorrow, originally published in Dogzplot,
has been included in Wigleaf's
2009 Top 50 stories under 1000 words long. See the LINKS page for links
to these publications and others.
Two
of my flash stories, Transparency
and And
the Crowd Went Wild were shortlisted for the FISH One Page
Short Story Prize.
My prose poem, Up Far
and Everywhere,
has been accepted for publication in the next issue of Elimae
Two new
reviews of The White Road
and Other Stories:
Jeremy Page of the Frogmore Papers
says "The short short story is Hershman’s preferred form, and there are
some very short shorts in this, her debut collection. For the most part
her experiments are a resounding success – in fact, for this reader,
she is at her most effective when at her most concise. ‘I am a camera’
comprises two short paragraphs which say everything that needs to be
said, no more, no less."
In Front&Centre,
Matthew Firth says "The White Road ... shows there is more than one way
for writers to separate their work from the pack of safe and boring
mainstream writing. Props to Hershman for showing readers that not all
short fiction is dull and formulaic. "
See the White
Road and Other Stories reviews
page for more.
APRIL
April 7th: I am thrilled to be one of two authors commended in the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers!
Sally Zigmond reviews The White Road and Other Stories:
"As I now read more novels than short
stories, I had expected to prefer the longer stories in this collection
to the flash fiction (as some reviewers have) but to me the longer ones
were either too long or too short--not quite right for this Goldilocks.
The flash fiction, on the other hand, I loved for its brevity, its
inventiveness and its poetic quality." See
the White
Road and Other Stories reviews
page
for more.
The White Road and Other Stories
is reviewed by Matt Bell: "The
White Road
is a very fine collection, containing enough wonder and humor and
heartbreak to overflow its slim pages, forcing the reader to share in
the great emotion contained within. Hershman's talent is obvious, and I
look forward to seeing it continue to grow across whatever new stories
and new books might follow this excellent start." See the White
Road and Other Stories reviews
page
for more.
My
flash story, Dangerous
Shoes,
has been accepted for publication in the next issue of the Los Angeles
Review.
MARCH
The White Road and Other Stories
is reviewed in Wet Ink, the Australian magazine of new writing: "This
collection exemplifies everything that is best about the short story.
With succinctness rarely seen in the work of someone new to fiction,
Hershman extracts the very essence of a moment to reveal the poignant
fragility of human relationships". See the White
Road and Other Stories reviews
page for more.
My
flash story, Prologue,
has been accepted for publication by Eleven Eleven magazine and will
appear in their July 2009 issue.
March
10th: Liars
League: Art and Science
My new science-inspired flash story
The
Painter and the
Physicist, was read by an actor at the Liars League event
in London. Visit the FICTION page for more.
FEB
Feb 22nd: I read
from one of my stories at the London Jewish Book Week launch of the
WJR charity anthology, The Sea of Azov. For more details, visit JewishBookWeek.com.
Feb
11th: Five flash stories, A Sigh Rose Inside Him,
Missy, My Uncle's Son, Suitcases Balanced on His Head, and
Underground are now published in PANK magazine's February Issue.
JAN
Jan 6th: I am visiting Debi Alper's blog on the
eleventh
and final "stop" on her virtual book tour. For information on the tour,
click here.
JMWW Journal's Winter Issue includes a review of The White Road
and Other Stories: "She weaves the warbly, neon threads of magical
realism together with the steel rods of science, and the effect often
is very satisfying." Visit the White
Road and Other Stories reviews
page for more.
2008
DECEMBER
** The White Road and Other Stories makes it into Amazon UK's
Top 20 Bestselling Short Story Collections! **
Dec
29rd: I am visiting Botswana on the tenth and penultimate "stop" on my
virtual book tour: Lauri's Thoughts from Botswana
blog.
For information on the
tour, click here.
Coat
and Shoes is
published in the latest issue of
Smokelong Quarterly along with an
author interview.
New Scientist has included The
White
Road and Other Stories in its Christmas
Books Special: Best of
2008, and the reviewer says: "Inspired
by scientific
progress and science journalism, including articles in New
Scientist, and driven by an author dripping with talent, this
is as good as modern reading gets." Read the full review.
I am talking about the environment, libraries and
my typical day on
the seventh "stop" on the
"Walking
the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book
Tour: The
Eco-Libris Blog
- and there is a giveaway of a free copy of my book!
For information on the
tour, click here.
Exchange
Rates,
the short play I adapted from my story of the same name, which is
included in my collection, has been shortlisted for the Total Beast
Six Minute Play competition and will be performed in London, with the
other shortlisted plays, in 2009.
Online lit mag Drunk
and Lonely Men has accepted my flash story, And Bruised, for
their third issue.
NOVEMBER
Nov 23rd: The BookBag reviewer John Lloyd gives The White Road and Other Stories a
5 Starred Review:
This
collection is one of those rare instances of a sustained
brilliance, introducing to me a true artist with a high degree of
quality control".
Read the rest of the review.
Nov 18th: Stop 4 on
the
Virtual Book Tour: Sue
Guiney's Blog,
for a discussion about Religion
and Fiction.
For
information on the
tour, click here.
Nov 13th: I
am announced as European regional winner of the
Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's short story competition, for my
story, Straight up.
Visit
the FICTION
page to listen to the story
Nov 9th:
The third stop on the "Walking
the White Road: flash, fiction and science" is Vanessa
Gebbie's News
for a discussion on magical
realism.
For information on the
tour, click here.
Nov 7th: I am
interviewed in the Jewish
Chronicle.
My flash story, How
Much
the Ants Carry, has been published in
Eyeshot.
Nov 5th:
The second stop on the "Walking
the White Road: flash, fiction and science" is LiteraryMinded.
For information on the
tour, click here.
OCTOBER
Oct 28th: The "Walking
the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book
Tour has now officially begun!
For information on the
tour, click here.
My
story, The White Road, is
reprinted by New
Scientist magazine, the science weekly whose articles
inspired half the stories in her collection. Read it here.
Oct
24th: I am interviewed
by Haaretz newspaper.
The
White Road and
Other Stories is
reviewed in LabLit.
The "Walking
the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book
Tour kicks off Oct 28th. Click on the image for details.
Three
flash stories are published in the Mad
Hatter's Review.
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
I
am delighted to have won 2nd prize in the
Vignette Press short story competiton and 3rd prize in the
Momaya 2008 Short Story competition and Drinking Vodka in
the Afternoon will
be published in the Momaya annual anthology.
We
Keep the Wall Between Us As We go has been accepted for
publication in the first issue of A capella Zoo, due out in October.
Birthday Cake, a
prose poem, has been accepted by Ink, Sweat and Tears and will be
published shortly.
JULY
Visit my Salt Author page.
Riffing on Strings,
the anthology of fiction and other
writings inspired by String Theory and which includes my story, Secrets, is now
available. See BOOKS.
The Angel in the Car Park and
Egged
On were
broadcast as part of the Rethink Daily's Sharp Things podcast series on July 1st and 9th. See the
FICTION
page for how to listen.
My story, Vegetable,
Mineral, is one of three winners of Biscuit
Publishing's 2008 Flash Fiction competition.
Thin Ice is a
finalist in the 2008 Binnacle Ultra-Short competition and will be
published in their Ultra-short edition. Two
flash
stories, Egged On and
the Angel in the Car Park,
have been accepted for
broadcast in July on Rethink Daily's Sharp Things podcast.
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INTERVIEWS
I
have
been interviewed by:
Smokelong Quarterly
The
Jewish Chronicle Haaretz newspaper
WriteWords
Nik
Perring
WritingNeuroses
Normblog
and by 11
blogs during my Virtual Book Tour 2008. For information on the tour,
click here.
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