FABER ANTH, O'CONNOR S'LIST & FLASH MOB NTERVIEW

I'm having a ball in Cáceres, Spain - a gorgeous heritage city, lovely people, very interesting Irish Studies papers on language and literature. With hot sun and tasty red wine. Heaven :)

A few newsy bits:

The Guardian mentioned Rozz Lewis's Faber anthology review today here.

And I am interviewed by Christopher Allen here in connection with my judging of this year's Flash Mob. Please enter!!

And, in good news, the shortlist for the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award has been announced and it consists of six titles.Thrilled to see David Constantine there.

1) Tea at the Midland and other stories – David Constantine – Comma Press, UK
2) Siege 13 – Tamas Dobozy – Milkweed Editions, USA/ Thomas Allen, Canada
3) Black Vodka – Deborah Levy – & Other Stories, UK
4) Black Dahlia & White Rose – Joyce Carol Oates – Harpercollins, USA
5) We’re Flying - Peter Stamm – Granta, UK/ Other Press LLC
6) Battleborn - Claire Vaye Watkins – Granta UK/Riverhead Books USA 

The winning book will be announced in the first week of July and the author will come to Cork to read and receive their award at the culmination of the Cork International Short Story Festival in September www.corkshortstory.net

FLASH MOB 2013

Image courtesy of fellow judge Marcus Speh

I am one of the judges for the 2013 Flash Mob, open for entries NOW!

FLASH MOB 2013 is a hybrid blog carnival and competition celebrating International Flash Fiction Day. To enter the mob, post a previously unpublished work of flash fiction (300 words or fewer, not including title) to your own blog sometime between now and June 10 (closing date of contest).

Then send the following (1-4 below)  to flashmobjune22@gmail.com

1. the link to the story

2. the story text in the body of your email without your name attached at the top

3. a brief bio

4. a picture of yourself looking mean or cool or funny or arty–nothing boring, no nudity.