...Tania Hershman
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Up Far and Everywhere Elimae

A Sigh Rose  Inside Him,  Missy, My Uncle's Son, Suitcases Balanced on His Head, and Underground, PANK magazine

Coat and Shoes, Smokelong Quarterly 

Colours Shift and Fade in the Vestal Review

How Much the Ants Carry, in Eyeshot.

Trams and Pies, Life Bursts Out and Containing Art, Mad Hatter's Review 

Come Back Tomorrow, Dogzplot.

.. listen online

Straight Up  European regional winner, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association short story competition, 2008-9

The Painter and the Physicist read at Liars League on March 10th 2009.

The Angel in the Car Park broadcast on RethinkDaily.co.uk on July 9th

Egged On broadcast on RethinkDaily.co.uk
on July 1st

..published & forthcoming

Flash Fiction

A Sigh Rose inside him, Pank magazine, Jan 2009

And Bruised
BRAND magazine, & Drunk & Lonely Men, Issue 3, 2008

The Angel in the Car Park,
 broadcast on Rethink Daily's Sharp Things podcast, July 2008

At Camden Town He said he loved me,  The Ranfurly Review, June 2008.

Birthday Cake, Ink, Sweat and Tears, July 2008

Braids, forthcoming from the Tin Parachute Postcard Review

Chemistry,  the Hiss Quarterly Birds & Bees issue

Come Back Tomorrow, Dogzplot

Containing Art , Mad Hatter's Review, Oct 2008

Dog Daze,  Fall 2007 issue of The Cafe Irreal

Egged On, broadcast, Rethink Daily's Sharp Things podcast, July 2008

Fish-filled Sea , Every Day Fiction on October 10th, 2007)

The Flower Seller, Issue #5 of the Orphan Leaf Review

Go Away,  Every Day Fiction

The Google 250, BRAND magazine

The Hand, The Binnacle 2007 Ultra Short Edition 

Heart, forthcoming from Magazine Minima . 

Heavy Bones, Issue #69 Spring 2007 of the Frogmore Papers

How Much the Ants Carry, Eyeshot, Nov 2008.

I Say, The Ranfurly Review, June 2008.

Life Bursts Out, Mad Hatter's Review, Oct 2008

Missy, Pank magazine,
Jan 2009

Mugs (winner, 2nd prize, Creating Reality's 3rd Flash 300 competition)

My Uncle's Son, Pank magazine,
Jan 2009

On the Kitchen Table The Ranfurly Review, June 2008.

The Painter and the Physicist, read by an actor at the Liars League event, March 10th 2009.

Prologue
, forthcoming in Eleven Eleven magazine, July 2009.


Sci Idol
LabLit May 2006

Secrets,  Riffing on Strings, creative writing inspired by string theory.                                                                                                        See books

Splitting the Atom Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Sept 2008.

Suitcases Balanced on His Head, Pank magazine,
Jan 2009

Sweet Music,
 
Literary Fever, August 2008

Thin Ice,
  2008 Binnacle Ultra-Short edition.

Trams and Pies, Mad Hatter's Review, Oct 2008

Underground, Pank magazine, Jan 2009

We Keep the Wall Between Us as We Go, 
A cappella Zoo, Issue 1.

Short Stories 

Doing it in Eden, Issue 2, July/ August 2004 of The Beat. 

Drinking Vodka in the Afternoon Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, October 3, 2007 and published in Momaya Press' 2008 anthology. 

Exchange Rates, Issue #15, Front&Centre . The short play I adapted from this story has been shortlisted for the Total Beast Six Minute Play competition and will be performed in London, with the other shortlisted plays, in 2009.

Express, Transmission magazine Issue #06.

Evie and the Arfids, Belevedere Writers' Club anthology, Talking to Strangers (See books)

North Cold, Issue #2, Riptide. 

On A Roll,
Route's Ideas Above Our Station (
See books), Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, January 24th 2006.  Discussed by Dan Wickett on the Emerging Writers Network as part of 2009 National Short Story Month.

Sunspots
Winter 2007/8 Issue of LauraHird.com

Space Fright
 The Steel City Review, April 2007

The White Road, Route's Wonderwall anthology (See books). Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, January 10th 2005.



I am delighted and honored to be one of two authors commended in the
2009 Orange Award for New Writers.

The judges said: "We would also like to commend Tania Hershman ...whose work stood out for its remarkable quality. We look forward to seeing more of [her] writing in the future."
The White Road and Other Stories

My short story collection, The White Road and Other Stories is published by Salt. Visit the book's website for excerpts from the stories, reviews, news and author events, how to buy the book, and my Virtual Book Tour.