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A Quiet Tidy Man

Listen to Juliet Stevenson Read ‘A Quiet Tidy Man’

July 22, 2016July 21, 2021 / Claire Fuller / 9 Comments

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Recently I was delighted to announce that my short story, A Quiet Tidy Man, was the winner of the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award 2016. It was read in front of an audience by the actress, Juliet Stevenson, and that recording is now available Continue reading →

Winning the Royal Academy / Pin Drop short story award

June 25, 2016June 25, 2016 / Claire Fuller / 17 Comments

 

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Yesterday my short story, A Quiet Tidy Man, won the Royal Academy of Arts / Pin Drop short story award 2016. The six shortlisted authors were invited to a ceremony at the Royal Academy in London, where the actress, Juliet Stevenson, announced the winner and read the story to an audience of about a hundred people.  Continue reading →

Royal Academy / Pin Drop Shortlisting

May 31, 2016May 31, 2016 / Claire Fuller / 5 Comments

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Today I heard that my short story, A Quiet Tidy Man, has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy / Pin Drop short story competition 2016.

I’m very excited because the six shortlisted authors (from a longlist of 23) have been invited to the awards ceremony at the Continue reading →


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Another collection of short stories which my #librarianhusband and I read to each other, which was very enjoyable. When it’s my turn to read (we read two pages at a time), I try to read my pages without making a single error. I have yet to achieve this, but that’s nothing to do with this collection which I really enjoyed. Groff’s writing is wonderful, it’s just, as always, there will be some stories I enjoy more than others, which probably says something about me – that my three favourites are in some way about survival. I loved this novella, first published in 1949 and set in Rome in 1944, just before the end of the second world war. Hayes writes so beautifully of the place, the cold, the desperate Italians, the bored and lonely American soldiers, I might have been there. It’s set, more or less, in two rooms in an apartment on the via Flaminia and I believe it was made into a play and while Haye’s writing is precise and descriptive it does feel very play-like. A wonderful novel of only 151 pages. Highly recommended. This is a reprint of a short story, with an interesting afterword by Toibin, and I managed to get hold of the beautiful little hardback from @backstory.london I really enjoyed Don’t You Miss It, a fabulous debut by @j.uliapike about female friendship that is true to life, heartfelt and real. It brought back all the complicated joy and heartache found in the deep bonds of early female friendships. Books for Christmas! Who doesn’t love a book-shaped present? If you’re looking for a gift for a friend or family member (or even yourself) you can choose from any of my six novels including Unsettled Ground, and my latest, Hunger and Thirst. This is the second of my videos about proof that I’ve been sent and so here are four more coming from Kate Collins, Suzie Miller, Eleanor Davies, and Rebecca Winterich-Knox. This is the first of two videos about proofs that I have been sent from publishers. All these books will be published in the coming months, so let me know which ones sound most interesting and if there are any here that you are definitely going to pre-order. Authors love pre-orders! I loved Winter Song by @rebecaleemorales, for its attention to detail, for its characterisation, for its setting and story. And also for Rebecca Lee Morales’ writing. It’s a literary mystery - a lovely slow build to some brilliant surprises. Very likely to be on my reads of the year. Throw Back Thursday to 2021 when my novel, Unsettled Ground was longlisted (and then shortlisted) for @womensprize. This is what I wrote in my diary:
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