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Niki Aguirre author of 29 Ways to Drown, and Terminal Romance
Brian Aldiss author of many short story collections
Gail Aldwin author of Paisley Shirt
Nina Allan author of A Thread of Truth, The Silver Wind, Microcosmos, and Stardust: The Ruby Castle Stories
Dinesh Allirajah author of A Manner of Speaking
Michael Arditti author of Good Clean Fun
Lane Ashfeldt author of Saltwater
A J Ashworth author of Somewhere Else Or Even Here
David Ayres author of Top of the Sixties, and The Canaries Collection
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Elizabeth Baines author of Balancing on the Edge of the World
Richard Bardsley author of Body Parts
Robert Barnard (1936-2013) author of Death of a Salesperson and Other Untimely Exits, and The Habit of Widowhood
Colin Barrett author of Young Skins
Kevin Barry author of There Are Little Kingdoms and Dark Lies The Island
Martin Bax author of Memoirs Of A Gone World
Alan Beard author of Taking Doreen Out Of The Sky and You Don’t Have To Say
Alec Beattie author of Mendacities
Chris Beckett author of The Turing Test and The Peacock Cloak
Claire-Louise Bennet author of Pond
Alan Bilton author of The Known and Unknown Sea
Nicholas Blincoe author of My Mother Was A Bank Robber
Lochlan Bloom author of Ambi and Anspi & Other Stories
Charles Boyle author of The Manet Girl
Carys Bray author of Sweet Home
Edna O’Brien author of The Love Object and Other Stories, A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories, Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories, Returning, A Fanatic Heart, Lantern Slides, Saints and Sinners
Sean O’Brien author of The Silence Room
Bill Broady author of In This Block There Lives A Slag
Hugh Brody author of Means Of Escape
Rebecca Burns author of Catching The Barramundi
James Burr author of Ugly Stories For Beautiful People
Frank Burton author of A History Of Sarcasm
A S Byatt author of Sugar And Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, The Djinn In The Nightingale’s Eye, Elementals, and Little Black Book of Stories
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Lucy Caldwell collection forthcoming
Neil Campbell author of Broken Doll and Pictures From Hopper
Ramsey Campbell author of many short story collections
Jo Cannon author of Insignificant Gestures
Patrick Chapman author of The Wow Signal
Regi Claire author of Fighting It
Jai Clare author of The Cusp Of Something
James Claffey author of Blood A Cold Blue
Annie Clarkson author of Winter Hands
Sally Cline author of One Of Us Is Lying
Kathryn Cockrill author of Case Files of the Supernatural
Micheál Ó Conghaile author of Fourfront, The Colours of Man, and The Man Who Never Laughs
Jamie O’Connell author of Some Sort Of Beauty
David Constantine author of Under The Dam, The Shieling, and Tea At The Midland
Mary Costello author of The China Factory
Ailsa Cox author of The Real Louise and Other Stories
Linda Cracknell author of The Searching Glance, and Life Drawing
Guy Cranswick author of Nine Avenues, and Corporate
Kelly Creighton author of Bank Holiday Hurricane
Anthony Cropper author of Nature’s Magician
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Madeleine D’Arcy author of Waiting For The Bullet And Other Stories
Julia Darling (1956-2005) author of Bloodlines
Judy Darley author of Remember Me To The Bees
Carys Davies author of Some New Ambush, and The Redemption of Galen Pike
Laura Del-Rivo author of Where Is My Mask Of An Honest Man?
Jo Derrick author of Twisted Sheets
Mary O’Donnell author of Storm Over Belfast
Anne Donovan author of Hieroglyphics and Other Stories
Gerard Donovan author of Country Of The Grand
Maria Donovan author of Tea for Mr Dead and Pumping Up Napoleon
Stanley Donwood author of Slowly Downwards and Household Worms
Susan Millar DuMars author of American Girls and Lights In The Distance
Patricia Duncker author of Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees, and Seven Tales of Sex and Death
Suzannah Dunn author of Darkers Days Than Usual, and Tenterhooks
Jeremy Dyson author of Never Trust A Rabbit, and The Cranes That Build The Cranes
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Richard Easter author of Cover Stories
Catherine Eisner author of Sister Morphine, and Listen Close To Me
Crista Ermiya author of The Weather in Kansas
Stuart Evers author of Ten Stories About Smoking
James Everington author of Falling Over
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Zoe Fairbarns author of How Do You Pronounce Nulliparous?
Michael J Farrell author of Life In The Universe, and Life Here Below
Jane Feaver author of Love Me Tender
Christopher Fielden author of Bloodless Volume 1: Alternative Afterlives
Tibor Fischer author of Crushed Mexican Spiders, and Don’t Read This Book If You’re Stupid
Kitty Fitzgerald author of Miranda’s Shadow
Òrfhlaith Foyle author of Somewhere In Minnesota
Matthew Francis author of Singing A Man To Death
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David Gaffney author of Sawn-Off Tales, Aromabingo, The Half Life Of Songs, and More Sawn-Off Tales
Patrick Gale author of Gentleman’s Relish
Janice Galloway author of Blood and Collected Stories
Frances Gapper author of Absent Kisses, and The Tiny Key
David Gardiner author of The Other End Of The Rainbow
Jeff Gardiner author of A Glimpse of the Numinous
Vanessa Gebbie author of Words From A Glass Bubble and Storm Warning
Maggie Gee author of The Blue
Sue Gee author of Last Fling
Brian George author of Walking The Labyrinth and Blindfold
Chrissie Gittins author of Family Connections
Rodge Glass author of LoveSexTravelMusik
Katharine Goddard author of A Spirited Evening and Other Stories, and Mysterious Tales
Pippa Goldschmidt author of The Need For Better Regulation of Outer Space
Jon Gower author of Big Fish
Robert Graham author of The Only Living Boy
Bronwen Griffiths author of Not Here Not Us
David Gullen, author of Open Waters.
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Tessa Hadley author of Married Love, and Sunstroke And Other Stories
Sarah Hall author of The Beautiful Indifference and Madame Zero
Sophie Hannah author of The Fantastic Book Of Everybody’s Secrets
Maggie Harris author of Canterbury Tales on a Cockrow Morning
Caroline Healy author of A Stitch In Time
Tania Hershman author of The White Road And Other Stories, My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions, and Some Of Us Glow More Than Others
Katherine Hetzel author of Granny’s Rainbow
Charlie Hill author of Walking Backwards
Peter Hobbs author of I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train
Liam Hogan author of Happy Ending Not Guaranteed
Andrew Hook author of The Virtual Menagerie, Beyond Each Blue Horizon, Residue, Nitrospective, and Human Maps
Tamsin Hopkins author of Shore to Shore
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Mark Ilis author of Tender
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Gwynneth Jones author of Identifying The Object, Seven Tales And A Fable, Grazing The Long Acre, The Buonarotti Quarter, and The Universe Of Things
Vivien Jones author of Perfect 10, and White Poppies
Pat Jourdan author of Rainy Pavements
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Paul Kane author of Alone, Touching The Flame, Funny Bones, Master Of The White Worms, Dalton Quayle and The Temple Of Deadly Danger, The Shadows Trilogy, Peripheral Visions, Shadow Writer, and The Butterfly Man And Other Stories
Deborah Kay Davies author of Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful
Alex Keegan author of Ballistics
Claire Keegan author of Antartica, and Walk The Blue Fields
A L Kennedy author of Night Geometry And The Scarscadden Trains, Now That You’re Back, Original Bliss, Invisible Acts, and What Becomes
Calum Kerr author of Braking Distance, and Lost Property
A J Kirby author of Mix Tape
Hanif Kureishi author of Love In A Blue Time, Midnight All Day, and The Body And Other Stories
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Charles Lambert author of The Scent Of Cinnamon
Zoe Lambert author of The War Tour
Helen Laycock author of Light Bites, Peace and Disquiet, and Minor Discord
Tom Lee author of Greenfly
Shaun Levin author of A Year Of Two Summers
Deborah Levy author of Black Vodka
David Ralph Lewis author of Amber Stars: One Night of Stories
Toby Litt author of Adventures In Capitalism, Exhibitionism
Alison Lock author of Above The Parapet
Kirsty Logan author of The Rental Heart And Other Fairy Tales
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Rowena Macdonald author of Smoked Meat
Annaliese Mackintosh author of Any Other Mouth
Rory Maclean author of Pictures of You
Alison MacLeod author of 15 Modern Tales Of Attraction and All the Beloved Ghosts
Ken MacLeod author of Giant Lizards From Another Star
Paul Magrs author of Playing Out, and Twelve Stories
Susie Maguire author of The Short Hello, and Furthermore
Vesna Main author of Temptation: A User’s Guide
Sara Maitland author of Telling Tales, A Book Of Spells, Women Fly When Men Aren’t Watching, Angel And Me, On Becoming A Fairy Godmother, and Far North And Other Dark Tales
Helena Mallett author of 75 x 75 = Flash Fraction
Martin Malone, author of The Mango War & Other Stories, and Deadly Confederacies & Other Stories
Jay Mandal author of Slubberdegullion, Loss Of Innocence, and A Different Kind Of Love
André Mangeot author of A Little Javanese and True North
Linda Mannheim author of Above Sugar Hill
Hilary Mantel author of Learning To Talk
Adam Marek author of Instruction Manual For Swallowing and The Stone Thrower
Tim Maughan author of Paintwork
Adam Maxwell author of Dial M For Monkey, Chills, Kills And Snowflakes, and The Night Before Christmas Before I Was Married And Other Festive Tales
Jo Mazelis author of Diving Girls, Circle Games and Ritual, 1969
Jaki McCarrick author of The Scattering
Maria C McCarthy author of As Long As It Takes
Alan McCormick author of Dogsbodies And Scumsters
Val McDermid author of Stranded, and Gunpowder Plots
Bernie McGill author of Sleepwalkers and Other Stories
Jon McGregor author of This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
Andrew McIntyre author of The Short, The Long And The Tall
Donal McLaughlin author of An Allergic Reaction To National Anthems and Other Stories, and Beheading The Virgin Mary And Other Stories (March 2014)
Alan McMonagle author of Liar Liar and Psychotic Episodes
Catherine McNamara author of Pelt And Other Stories and The Cartography of Others
Susana Medina author of Red Tales
James Meek author of The Museum Of Doubt
Paul Meloy author of Islington Crocodiles
Pauline Melville author of Shape-Shifter, and The Migration Of Ghosts
Samantha Memi author of Kate Moss and Other Heroines
Jay Merill author of Astral Bodies and God Of The Pigeons
Anna Metcalfe author of Blind Water Pass and Other Stories
Erinna Mettler author of Starlings
China Miéville author of Looking For Jake
Rob Mimpriss author of Reasoning and For His Warriors
Rosalind Minett author of Me-Time Tales
Alison Moore author of The Pre-War House And Other Stories
Steve Morris author of In All Probability and Jumble Tales
Graham Mort author of Touch and Terroir
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Marc Nash author of Long Stories Short, 52FF, and 16 FF
Ryan O’Neill author of A Famine In Newcastle and The Weight Of A Human Heart
Courttia Newland author of Music For The Off-Key and A Book Of Blues
Emma Newman author of From Dark Places
Kim Newman author of the Original Dr Shade and Other Stories, Famous Monsters, Back In The USSA, Where The Bodies Are Buried, Seven Stars, Unforgivable Stories, Binary 2, Dead Travel Fast, The Secret Files Of The Diogenes Club
Nuala Ní Chonchúir author of The Wind Across The Grass, To The World Of Men, Welcome, Nude, Mother America, Of Dublin And Other Fictions, and Joyride to Jupiter
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne author of Blood And Water, Eating Women Is Not Recommended, The Inland Ice, The Pale Gold Of Alaska, Midwife To The Fairies, The Shelter of Neighbours
Jeff Noon author of Pixel Juice, and Cobrilingus
Gregory Norminton author of Thumbnails, and The Ghost Who Bled And Other Stories
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Aiden O’Reilly author of Greetings, Hero
Helen Oyeyemi author of Mr Fox
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Lorna Page author of Ebb And Flow
Nick Parker author of The Exploding Boy And Other Tiny Tales
Rosalie Parker author of The Old Knowledge And Other Stories
Cassandra Parkin author of New World Fairy Tales
Wendy Perriam author of Dreams, Demons And Desire, Virgin In The Gym, Laughter Class, The Biggest Female In The World, Little Marvel, The Queen’s Margarine, I’m On The Train!
Nik Perring author of Not So Perfect
Jonathan Pinnock author of Dot Dash
Cherry Potts author of Mosaic of Air, and Tales Told Before Cockcrow
Gareth Powell author of Entropic Angel, and The Last Reef
Christopher Priest author of Real-Time World, An Infinite Summer, The Dream Archipelago, Ersatz Wines
Kate Pullinger author of Forcibly Bewitched, Tiny Lies, My Life As A Girl In A Men’s Prison, and A Curious Dream
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Rosanne Rabinowitz author of Resonance & Revolt
Mahesh Rao author of One Point Two Billion: stories from rising India
John Reid author of The Skipping Verger And Other Tales
Sean O’Reilly author of Curfew
Dan Rhodes author of Anthropology, Don’t Tell Me The Truth About Love, and Marry Me
Susannah Rickards author of Hot Kitchen Snow
Valerie O’Riordan author of Enough
Justina Robson author of Heliotrope
Jane Rogers author of Hitting Trees With Sticks
Ethel Rohan author of Hard To Say, Cut Through The Bone, and Goodnight Nobody
David Rose author of Posthumous Stories
Dilys Rose author of Our Lady Of The Pickpockets, Lord Of Illusions, and Selected Stories
Lee Rourke author of Everyday
Nicholas Royle author of Mortality
Mike Russell author of Nothing Is Strange and Strange Medicine
Geoff Ryman author of Paradise Tales
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Cordelia Salter author of Queen Idia’s Africa
Sarah Salway author of Leading The Dance
Polly Samson author of Lying in Bed, and Perfect Lives
John Saul author of Call It Tender, The Most Serene Republic, As Rivers Flow, and Even The Butterfly Must Endure The Storm
Alexei Sayle author of Barcelona Plates, and The Dog Catcher
Gemma Seltzer author of Speak To Strangers
Ellis Sharp author of The Aleppo Button, Lenin’s Trousers, To Wanstonia, Driving My Baby Back Home, Arla Fritta, and Dead Iraqis
Robert Shearman author of Tiny Deaths, Love Songs For The Shy And Cynical, Everyone’s Just So Special, and Remember Why You Fear Me
Stephen Shieber author of Being Normal
Steph Shields author of Swan Landings
Felicity Skelton author of Eating A Sandwich
Ali Smith author of Free Love And Other Stories, Other Stories And Other Stories, The Whole Story And Other Stories, The First Person And Other Stories, and Public Library and Other Stories
Catherine Smith author of The Biting Point
Eddie Stack author of The West, Out Of The Blue, Quare Hawks, Borderlines
Mark Staniforth author of XXXmas Box, and Fryupdale
Louise Stern author of Chattering
Mark Stewart author of The Screaming Planet and The Absence of Wings
Ashley Stokes author of Syllabus of Errors
Elizabeth Stott author of Familiar Posessions
Simon Strantzas author of Beneath The Surface, Cold To The Touch, and Nightingale Songs.
Mitzi Szereto author of Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, Wicked: Erotic Tales of Legendary Lovers, Red Velvet and Absinthe, Erotic Fairy Tales, Foreign Affairs, Getting Even, Dying For It
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Jane Talbot author of The Faerie Thorn and Other Stories
Padrika Tarrant author of Broken Things, and Fates Of The Animals
Jonathan Taylor, author of Kontakte and Other Stories
Frances Thimann author of Cello And Other Stories, and November Wedding
Ruth Thomas author of Supergirl, The Dance Settee, and Sea Monster Tattoo
Carl Tighe author of Rejoice And Other Stories, PAX: Variations
Emma Timpany author of Over the Dam, and The Lost of Syros
William Trevor author of The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories, The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories, The Last Lunch of the Season, Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories, Lovers of their Time, Beyond the Pale, The Stories of William Trevor, The News from Ireland and Other Stories, Family Sins and Other Stories, Outside Ireland: Selected Stories, The Collected Stories, After Rain, Cocktails an Doney’s, The Hill Bachelors, A Bit On the Side, Cheating at Canasta, Bodily Secrets, The Collected Stories.
Michelle Tudor author of Miyoko & Other Stories
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Simon Van Booy author of The Secret Lives Of People In Love, and Love Begins In Winter
Salley Vickers author of Aphrodite’s Hat
Tom Vowler author of The Method and Dazzling the Gods
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Dolores Walshe, author of MoonMad
Joanna Walsh author of Fractals and Worlds from the Word’s End
D P Watt author of The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications
Clare Wigfall author of The Loudest Sound And Nothing
Margaret Wilkinson author of 1956
Joel Willans author of Spellbound
Conrad Williams author of Born With Teeth, and Use Once, Then Destroy
Eley Williams author of Attrib.
Gee Williams author of Blood etc.., Magic, And Other Deceptions, A Girl’s Arm
Tony Williams author of All The Bananas I’ve Never Eaten
Jeanette Winterson author of The World And Other Places,
Lucy Wood author of Diving Belles
Starr Wood author of Once Upon a Timepiece
Gerard Woodward author of Caravan Thieves
Jan Woolf author of Fugues On A Funny Bone
Jeremy Worman author of Fragmented and Swimming with Diana Dors and Other Stories.
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Tamar Yellin author of Kafka In Bronteland
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