Carys Bray

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Short stories by some of my favourite authors:

A Small Good Thing by Raymond Carver

Coupling by Alison MacLeod - download it here

Feather Girls by Claire Massey

Mirrors by Carol Shields

My New House Hates Me by Jenn Ashworth

No Problemo by Ailsa Cox

Rodney is Looking for his Daughter by Dave Eggers

Say My Name by Nik Perring

Shaggy Bear Story by Cassandra Parkin

The Art of Elsewhere by Ali Smith

The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro

The Cast by Nicholas Royle

The Festival of the Immortals by Helen Simpson

The Heart Fails Without Warning by Hilary Mantel

The Kugelmass Episode by Woody Allen

The Will Writer by Alison MacLeod - download it here

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman or listen to the story here

What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes by Dave Eggers

Listen to the brilliant Rob Shearman, Adam Marek, Jane Rogers and many others reading their own work here at Comma Press.

Listen to The New Yorker fiction podcasts here.
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I write short fiction and co-edit Paraxis. My Scott Prize winning collection 'Sweet Home' is published by Salt.
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My Blog List

  • WOMEN RULE WRITER
    LYDIA DAVIS WINS MAN BOOKER INTL PRIZE - Lydia Davis - photo: *The Guardian*I am delighted that Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International Prize. This is a welcome shot in the arm to those o...
    3 minutes ago
  • Bookmunch
    ‘Millar continues to aim for the ‘oh no you ditn’t” – Kick Ass 2 by Mark Millar & John Romita Jr - If you've been reading up to this point (both the review and the Kick Ass series), and enjoying yourself, you'll continue to enjoy yourself in Kick Ass 2. ...
    1 hour ago
  • Feministing
    Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet - Actress Kerry Washington delivers inspirational commencement speech at her alma mater George Washington University. Women, Action, Media pens open letter t...
    10 hours ago
  • n+1
    The Uncertainty of Risk - Despite our generalized faith in their power to predict, when systemic disaster strikes we continue to accept experts’ claims that the cataclysm was an unf...
    14 hours ago
  • blog.saltpublishing.com
    An Evening of Salt Crime at Gower Street Waterstone’s - AN EVENING OF CRIME WITH SALT THURSDAY 20th JUNE, 6.30 P.M. – 7.30 P.M. CHRISTINA JAMES, LAURA ELLEN JOYCE and MATTHEW PRITCHARD tell how they embarked u...
    14 hours ago
  • Savidge Reads
    Savidge on Sabbatical - As some of you may have seen on twitter the other day or guessed from my absence on The Readers this week, Granny Savidge is sadly very, very poorly indeed...
    15 hours ago
  • Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk
    The Great Gatsby meets Baz Luhrmann - This might be the best attempt yet to film Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Which is not to say this is a good film Writing about Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby in relat...
    15 hours ago
  • Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong?
    Things about Things. - It's been a while since I wrote one of these here blogposts. Let's see if I can still do it. OK, we've opened Tuffet's Toys and Tales, our new little Books...
    19 hours ago
  • For Books' Sake
    Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi - A coming-of-age début novel journeying from Lagos to London to New York...
    20 hours ago
  • The Mslexia Blog
    What to do when you hate the sound of your own voice? - As I mentioned in my previous post I was lucky enough to attend a creative writing workshop with Sara Sheridan. Sara is a bestselling author of around twen...
    21 hours ago
  • The Riverside Way
    Maggie & Me: Damian Barr - Signed copies available – £14.99 It wasn’t much fun being a gay kid in Thatcher’s Britain during the Eighties – especially not for Damian Barr, growing up ...
    23 hours ago
  • Strictly Writing
    Apologies, Apologies, Apologies... - I feel like the silly girl who was trying to do a Good Thing and in the process ended up doing something else she should'na. Housekeeping in my neck of the...
    1 day ago
  • Me And My Big Mouth
    Typelists are Fucked - Typelists are the lists of books, blogs, movies, albums etc. that you can see over there on the right of the blog. I try to update these with all the new b...
    1 day ago
  • Reading the Short Story
    Puzzle the Prof: Stephen Dobyns' "A Happy Vacancy" - Richard Pangburn has suggested a story for me to consider for “Puzzle the Prof” this year—Stephen Dobyns’ “A Happy Vacancy,” from his collection *Eating N...
    2 days ago
  • doug johnstone
    A FREE Event at Clydebank Library on Wednesday - Hey folks, been a wee while since I’ve gigged but I’m thrilled to say I have a FREE event at Clydebank Library on Wednesday 22nd May, kicking off at 7.30pm...
    2 days ago
  • Liars' League
    The Love Song of the Predator Drone, by Owen Booth - If there was one thing Mary had learned in three years in Afghanistan, it was as banal as this: Love and war are a terrible combination. Also: never get into...
    3 days ago
  • Adam Marek
    Writing tools I can’t live without #2: Fisher Space Pen - You know that feeling of excitement and joy you get when you first buy a new gadget or beautiful item? And how, after a very short time, that initial excit...
    3 days ago
  • A Salted
    Failure - I entered the Mslexia short story competition this year. My favourite writer, Janice Galloway, was the judge, so it was a must. It’s an excellent competiti...
    3 days ago
  • Broken Biro
    'It's like your gran... turned into Beyoncé' - This is a big week for Liverpool and for libraries. After a three years closure, the Liverpool Central Library has reopened following a £55million PFI-fun...
    4 days ago
  • Elizabeth Baines
    Reading group: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - Ann suggested this 1958 novel because her interest had been aroused by Chinua Achebe's recent death, and she remembered that it had once been suggested p...
    5 days ago
  • TaniaWrites
    Iridescent Insects: What is Flash Fiction? - I'm over at the Litro blog again today with my second monthly "Guide to Flash Fiction" blog post - I thought this time I'd better try and figure out what f...
    6 days ago
  • Caroline Smailes
    The Folded Man – Matt Hill - I am thrilled, proud and a little bit tearful to be welcoming my friend Matt Hill to my blog. His debut, ‘The Folded Man’ is published TODAY. ‘The Folded M...
    1 week ago
  • Head above Water
    Sit under your novel in progress, lessons from motherhood - As I mother of four I am very familiar with having to wait, to rein in speed and impetus and to go very slowly or not at all while being present for my chi...
    1 week ago
  • How to Write a Novel
    BOOK TRAILER - For those of you who like your visual and aural senses piqued, here's a trailer for the novel. It works best with the sound up loud.
    1 week ago
  • Pages
    A Translated Man published - My new book *A Translated Man *is published. Here's the cover image (I think that is Rene Van Valckenborch himself.) I have given this book over to my ...
    1 week ago
  • Mike French
    Convergence off to the Publishers - Well I woke up at 4AM this morning with a final small idea for a tweak in the Ms for Convergence and therefore I am brain dead now. So please forgive this...
    1 week ago
  • I call it research...
    - I'm feeling irked. A particular organisation, one I respect and support, is advertising a position for a creative writer to spend several hours a week faci...
    1 week ago
  • Claire King
    Word of Mouth: Rob Around Books - The biggest prize of all is hearing that I’ve encouraged a non or seldom reader to pick up a book. When that happens I can think of no bigger high.
    1 week ago
  • Me And My Short Stories
    After the Gunshot - Story: After the Gunshot Author: Lee Ji Myung Collection: Words Without Borders The current issue of the online magazine Words Without Borders looks at writi...
    1 week ago
  • Neil Gaiman's Journal
    A giant TOUR catch up. Also, we wear the same boots. - I need to get back to blogging. Too many things are stacking up, and I'm paying attention over on Twitter and Tumblr and such, but not here, and really, th...
    1 week ago
  • Comments on: Home
    On Elizabeth Smart and Chewing Gum - The Friday Gospels has been out nearly six months now (phew!) and I’ve done a ton of events and had a ton and a half of emails about it. Generally people h...
    1 week ago
  • Who the fudge is Benjamin Judge?
    A Piece of Advice - What is the best piece of writing advice you have ever heard? I’ll tell you mine first. It was during my MA course, it was something MJ Hyland said, and st...
    1 week ago
  • The Endist » Happy Happy Happy
    A Steak For Don - I thought I’d experiment and make a recording of one of my short stories – ‘A Steak For Don’. This story was originally published in the 2008 Flax antholog...
    2 weeks ago
  • Echo Soundings
    I might forget but my body never will - Delayed by the strong easterlies of March and April we've only just put the boat back together. I chose the surprisingly relaxing job of untangling the la...
    2 weeks ago
  • Words & Fixtures
    Short but sweet - Well, I don't wish to depress anyone, but tomorrow is May. How the devil did that happen? Ho hum, let's think less about how closer we are to pureed food a...
    3 weeks ago
  • FictionBitch
    Branding in publishing - Longman's dictionary: *brand* *n* *1 *a charred piece of wood *2a *a mark made by burning with a hot iron to designate ownership (eg of cattle) *b *a mark ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Real Time Short Stories
    The Hate Inside The Inkwell - A couple of weeks ago, I joined in a discussion with fellow posters on The ‘Spill music blog on the issue of developing a fondness for music your partisan ...
    1 month ago
  • A. J. Ashworth
    Congratulations! - Just a quick note to say huge congratulations to Debz Hobbs-Wyatt who has been shortlisted in the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Debz has been...
    1 month ago
  • Laura Wilkinson
    Agent Hunter: a sharp spear for authors seeking representation - Harry Bingham, best-selling author and creator of The Writers Workshop has launched a new project aimed at helping unrepresented authors find agents. … Co...
    1 month ago
  • Do a Barrel Roll
    The End is Nigh! - It is very nearly time for the end. In case you didn't know it yet, this Saturday sees a unique one-off literature event at Preston's doomed Bus Station at ...
    2 months ago
  • The Yellow Room Editor
    From One Extreme To Another - I don't look like the lady in the photograph, but I probably felt just as good when I went for my run this morning. Talk about from one extreme to another...
    2 months ago
  • ALEXANDRA O'TOOLE
    On Location - One of the perks of being a freelance writer is that you can pretty much work from anywhere. Right now, I’m on a farm in Staffordshire. Despite the the bit...
    3 months ago
  • The Ether Blog
    FEATURED WRITER - JR WIRTH - [image: Jrwirth] *What mobile phone do you carry?* I currently have an Android and can’t wait until Ether has the ability to use Google Play. ...
    3 months ago
  • The War Tour
    Notes to Self Prior to a Year of Events - a) the two-glass wine hypothesis will prove to be correct. b) events are very tiring, especially one hour lunchtime readings where you have to keep talki...
    5 months ago
  • My Shitty Twenties
    Moving House (2) - Hello This blog has moved house, to here. It’s been treated to a beautiful makeover from the very talented Jo, A.K.A The Geek Fairy. Thanks a million, Jo. ...
    5 months ago
  • forgetting the time
    Looking back: Petrified - There was a gorgeous whole moon last week. I drove onto the Mancunian Way where the road is elevated and there, huge and beautifully orange, was the dusk ...
    5 months ago
  • written in water
    Bram Stoker - I think I mentioned below that I've never won a prize. Well, I have now. BEFORE DAWN is Jo Mitchell and Dominic Brunt's film - between them they starred...
    6 months ago
  • fall and fall again
    Cross - I’m a shit blogger and I know it. It’s partly because I’m busy, and also because I don’t know whether I actually want a blog and sometimes I think I should...
    6 months ago
  • Blog | Simon Okotie
    Next stop for a real omnibus edition - In The Independent: “Simon Okotie’s new novel, Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?, was conceived on Okotie’s daily commute from Kilburn to Oxford Circus ...
    8 months ago
  • Trying to write, training to tri
    A Good Season - I have just renewed my blog with Google and it's a bit like that expensive gym membership that comes with a card which is used so infrequently that even th...
    10 months ago
  • Neverending Stories
    Have you written a crime, thriller or psychological suspense novel? - Reblogged from Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency: Competition: The Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency is launching a new Crime, Thriller and Psyc...
    10 months ago
  • Margaret Atwood: Year of the Flood
    My Tribute to Jay MacPherson, Delivered at Victoria College, June 11, 2012 - Jay MacPherson was a rare creature — one of a kind. Everyone who knew her would agree. Eleanor Cook has spoken about her poetry. I can only add...
    11 months ago
  • The Short Review
    Letter from the Editor - Hiatus - *Letter from The Editor* The June 2012 issue will be the last Short Review issue for a little while, the journal will be on hiatus for at least a few month...
    11 months ago
  • Gathering Scraps | Claire Massey
    Metamorphosis - The new issue of *Magpie Magazine*, Metamorphosis, is out now. I'm delighted my story 'Moth Light' is in there amongst the many articles, stories, poems,...
    1 year ago
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