Best British Short Stories 2025
Language: English
Published by Salt Publishing, GB, 2025
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The definitive showcase of the year's finest British short stories'Bravo to Salt's beacon of delight and intrigue - its annual collection of the UK's best short stories, from established and emerging voices.' -Duncan MinshullNow relaunched for a new era, Best British Short Stories returns with a bold new look and a renewed commitment to celebrating the art of the short story. As we enter our fifteenth volume, this much-loved annual collection continues to be the go-to anthology for readers seeking the most exciting and diverse voices in contemporary British fiction.Assembled by series editor Nicholas Royle, Best British Short Stories 2025 presents a stellar selection of stories first published in 2024, drawn from magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks, and online. Whether you're a devoted follower or discovering the series for the first time, this new edition reaffirms our mission to champion storytelling in all its forms.'If the latest iteration of Salt's Best British Short Stories collection is anything to go by then the genre remains in safe hands.' -Lawrence Foley, TLSFeaturing stories by: David Bevan, Rose Biggin, Christopher Burns, Ian Critchley, Pippa Goldschmidt, Linden Hibbert, Hannah Hoare, Catrin Kean, Roger Luckhurst, Baret Magarian, Wyl Menmuir, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, Simon Okotie, Imogen Reid, C. D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Elizabeth Stott, Mark Valentine, and Naomi Wood.…
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- Title
- Best British Short Stories 2025
- Author
- David Bevan, Rose Biggin, Christopher Burns, Ian Critchley, Pippa Goldschmidt, Linden Hibbert, Hannah Hoare, Catrin Kean, Roger Luckhurst, Baret Magarian, Wyl Menmuir, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, Simon Okotie, Imogen Reid, C. D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Elizabeth Stott, Mark Valentine, Naomi Wood
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing, GB
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1784633534
- ISBN 13
- 9781784633530
The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifteenth year
Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its fifteenth volume.
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About the Author
David Bevan is a 2021 graduate of the Manchester Writing School’s Creative Writing MA programme. ‘The Bull’ is one of two stories first published by Nightjar Press.
Christopher Burns is the author of six novels – Snakewrist, The Flint Bed, In the Houses of the West, The Condition of Ice, Dust Raising and A Division of the Light – and a short story collection, About the Body. He lives in Whitehaven, West Cumbria.
Linden Hibbert runs a pop-up art gallery in rural Suffolk. She has a PhD in creative writing from UEA, and is currently researching the adaptation of Ovidian myths from poetry to sculpture. Her short stories have been published by the Baltimore Review, and the Madrid Review, among others.
Hannah Hoare is a television producer, director and scriptwriter specialising in natural history programmes. Her short fiction has been published online by The Molotov Cocktail, Flashback Fiction, The Cabinet of Heed and Thin Skin. She lives in Wiltshire, in southern England.
Baret Magarian was born in London, of Armenian origin. He was educated at Durham and London Universities and has published The Fabrications, Melting Point, Mirror and Silhouette and Chattering. He is a lecturer, pianist-composer, amateur painter, guitarist, writer and poet. He has travelled widely and has worked as nude model, translator, musician, interviewer, journalist, book representative, and in PR.
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