Somebody (thank you, kind person) recommended Nude over at the Postgrad Contemporary Women's Writing Network as a favourite example of contemporary women's short fiction. Look at the other women on the list! I feel like the wide-eyed fan at the party. Lorrie Moore! Maeve Brennan! Daphne du bloody Maurier! Hee hee. That's put a grin on my grumpy gob :)
- Ali Smith – The First Person and Other Stories
- Lorrie Moore – Birds of America (‘What You Want to Do Fine’)
- Emma Donoghue – Astray (‘Onward’, ‘Daddy’s Girl’)
- Jhumpa Lahiri – The Interpreter of Maladies
- Petina Gappah – An Elegy for Easterly
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – The Thing Around Your Neck
- Nicola Barker – Three Button Trick
- Angela Carter – Burning Your Boats
- Margaret Atwood – Good Bones and Murder in the Dark
- Alice Walker – The Complete Stories
- Daphne du Maurier – The Birds and other stories
- Jackie Kay – Reality, Reality
- Maeve Brennan – The Springs of Affections: Stories of Dublin
- Muriel Spark – ‘The Portobello Road’, ‘The Girl I left Behind Me’ & ‘Bang-Bang You’re Dead’
- Lydia Davis – Story and Other Stories
- Amy Hempel – At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom
- Nuala Ní Chonchúir – Nude
- Amy Bloom – A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories
