Bernie McGill and Rosemary Jenkinson make the Edge Hill longlist
The longlist for the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize has just been announced, which sees This Train is For by Bernie McGill (No Alibis), and Love in the Time of Chaos by Rosemary Jenkinson (Arlen House) make the list of ten short story collections from the UK and Ireland.
The award recognises excellence in a published, single-authored short story collection, with a first prize of £10,000.
Previous winners include Sarah Hall, David Szalay, Tessa Hadley and Kevin Barry.
The Longlist
Mammals, I Think We Are Called, by Giselle Leeb (Salt).
Love in the Time of Chaos, by Rosemary Jenkinson (Arlen House).
This Train is For, by Bernie McGill (No Alibis).
Whirlwind Romance, by Sam Thompson (Unsung Stories).
Total, by Rebecca Miller (Canongate).
Scar Tissue, by Clare Morgan (Seren Books).
Cat Brushing, by Jane Campbell (riverrun).
Now You See Him, by Tim Craig (Ad Hoc Fiction).
The Dog Husband, by Rose McDonagh (Reflex Press).
Animals at Night, by Naomi Booth (Dead Ink Books).
The judges for this year’s Edge Hill Prize are Saba Sams, winner of last year’s award, Lucy Luck, agent at C&W Agency, and short story writer and Edge Hill creative writing lecturer Andrea Ashworth.
Rosemary Jenkinson
“Literature should be as dissolute, debauched, decadent and degenerate as possible and one of my writing goals has been to be regarded as a female Bukowski,” Rosemary Jenkinson said in her Burning Books Q and A with Books Ireland.
You can listen to her read the first page from the opening story of Love in the Time of Chaos here, or listen back to her chat with Sean Rocks on RTÉ Arena.
Bernie McGill
Bernie McGill is the author of two novels, The Butterfly Cabinet and The Watch House, and two collections of short stories, Sleepwalkers—and, most recently, This Train is For (No Alibis Press).
Listen in to our podcast Burning Books to hear her talk about Aesop’s Fables, the Irish short story, Lincoln in the Bardo—and a lot more in between—as she tells Ruth McKee which books she would save if her house was on fire.
