The winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2023 is announced TONIGHT! Naomi Booth's incredible Animals at Night is shortlisted alongside Total by Rebecca Miller, Love in the Time of Chaos by Rosemary Jenkins, Cat Brushing & Other Stories by Jane Campbell, and This Train is For... by Bernie McGill. Naomi Booth, on the nature of writing short fiction: "I find that the best short stories have a strong rhythmical impact on me. Elizabeth Bowen, who was writing stories a century ago, describes them as standing at ‘the edge of prose’—in some ways closer to poetry than to the novel. I feel that rhythm is similarly important in short fiction and poetry. A story needs to create its own tempo, but then must rapidly disrupt, interrupt, sever it. A story’s ending can often be heart-stoppingly sudden. A brilliant short story feels, to me, like a whole-body rhythmical experience." What's your favourite short story collection? #shortstorycollection #edgehillprize #shortstories #literaryprizes ...