Bracket: A New Generation in Fiction

Name: Bracket: A New Generation in Fiction
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Emma Unsworth · Sarah Tierney · Maria Roberts · Fiona Ritchie · Walker Mario Petrucci · Tom Palmer · Rory Miller · Adam Maxwell · Char March · Zoe Lambert · David Lambert · Annie Kirby · Philip Hughes · Sara Heitlinger · Penny Feeny · Tim Cooke · Jaime Campbel · Sheena Brabazon · Patrick Belshaw · Penny Anderson

Dec 2013 · Comma Press

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The latest in Comma’s acclaimed series of short story anthologies, Bracket brings together 20 of the country’s most promising, previously unpublished writers. From the cliffs of Flamborough Head to high rise, inner city madness; from lost loves to the last days of civilisation - the settings and scenarios in these stories captivate and unsettle in equal measure, all the time striving for that most unlikely modern thing, intimacy.

"Short fiction is in good hands"
Independent on Sunday, 13 Mar 2005.
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"Fills you with hope for the form"
Time Out, 2 Feb 2005.
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"Get with the zeitgeist and buy yourself a copy of Bracket"
Leeds Guide, 26 Jan 2005.
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"An agreeably accomplished collection populated, as promised, by some intriguing characters"
City Life, 19 Jan 2005.
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About the author

Penny Anderson has written for The NME, and BBC radio, as well as worked as a record company talent scout, a body parts courier, and a filing clerk in a sewerage works. She is presently writing a novel.

Patrick Belshaw is a retired HM Inspector of Schools who has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Northumbria University. The author of A Kind of Private Magic, Deautsch, l994 (a group biography featuring EM Forster), he is married to Kathie and has three sons and two grandsons.

Sheena Brabazon worked for several years as a magazine journalist before beginning an MA in Writing. Since then she has had a short story, ‘Ciara's Bird’, published in an online magazine, E-Sheaf, and is currently working on her first novel.

Jaime Campbell is currently working on his first novel ‘Harmonica’ whilst completing an MA in Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has recently published work in Word Riot and Open Wide. ‘The Removal’ is set to be made into a short film early in 2005.

Tim Cooke has worked variously as a lecturer, an internet consultant, and a composer of music for television, film and new media. His unpublished novel ‘The Zero-Sum Game’ was the source for the 2004 film ‘The Principles of Lust’ directed by Penny Woolcock. He lives (with a headache) in Manchester.

Penny Feeny is a former copywriter and editor now concentrating on fiction. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies and won prizes in several competitions. She lives in Liverpool with her family.

Sara Heitlinger grew up in Australia and Israel. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She won first prize in the Time Out Student Awards in 2003 for her short story, ‘Empty’.

Philip Hughes was born in Birmingham, is 22 years old and is presently living in Aberystwyth where he studyied English and Media. Having since completed a Masters in Creative Writing he is now working on a first novel in his spare time.

Annie Kirby is a graduate of the University of East Anglia Creative Writing MA. Her first short story was recently broadcast on Radio 4 as part of their ‘Ones to Watch’ series. She lives in Dorset.

David Lambert was born in the West Indies of Trinidadian/Irish parentage. He has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. His unpublished novel 'Mulatto Moon' was a National Black First Chapter winner(2004). His novella 'Providence' won the Norwich Prize (2002). He is currently working on something set in the former Soviet Union. He teaches Creative Writing in Cambridge.

Zoe Lambert has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and is finishing her first novel. She writes reviews for various magazines. She is an associate lecturer and PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Char March has written three collections of poetry, most recently Deadly Sensitive (Grassroots Press), five BBC Radio 4 plays and six stage plays. She grew up in Scotland and now divides her time between the Highlands and Yorkshire.

Adam Maxwell is 28 years old and has been writing short-short stories or 'flash fiction' for his website (www.jigsawlounge.co.uk) and others for some time. He is currently working on his first novel. This piece is based on a true story.

Rory Miller wrote his contribution for a Creative Writing module as an undergraduate at the University of Kent, under the tutelage of Susan Wicks. He is presently living in Canada.

Tom Palmer works for the Reading Agency and as a freelance Reader Development Officer for Yorkshire and the North West. He has previously published If You're Proud to be a Leeds Fan (Mainstream, 2002). This story is loosely drawn from a novel in progress titled ‘News Junkie’, for which he received a K Blundell Award for development.

Mario Petrucci has been resident poet at the Imperial War Museum and with BBC Radio 3. He recently won the London Writers Competition for an unprecendented third time. ‘Heavy Water’ (Enitharmon) secured the Arvon Prize and “Radiates compassion” (The Observer).

Fiona Ritchie Walker’s first poetry collection, Lip Reading, was published by Diamond Twig in 1999. She has a second, Garibaldi’s Legs, due from Iron Press in 2005. She received a 2004 Northern Promise Award from New Writing North to develop her short stories, and is presently working with Sara Maitland as part of NWN’s mentoring scheme.

Maria Roberts was born in 1977 in Manchester. She studied English and Spanish at the University of Manchester and has just graduated from the Creative Writing School at MMU. She lives in a small house full of junk on the outskirts of Manchester with Scratch, her very talkative six-year-old son. She has just completed her first novel.

Sarah Tierney is 27, works as a journalist and copywriter, and lives in Manchester.

Emma Unsworth is 25 and works as a writer and editor. She began her first novel whilst studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester University. Previous short stories have been published in Comma: an anthology and Sepember Stories published by Prospect magazine and Comma Press.

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