Waving at the Gardener: The Asham Award Short-Story Collection

by Kate Pullinger, Kate Pullinger (Editor)

Overview

'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the
whole world' Virginia Woolf

Asham House in
Sussex was once home to Virginia and Leonard Woolf and is the
inspiration behind the Asham Award. Launched in 1996 to support and
encourage new writers, it is Britain's only prize for short stories by
women.

Waving at the Gardener
presents the twelve fresh, engaging and original voices shortlisted for
the Asham Short-Story Award 2009, as well as four specially commissioned
new stories by beloved authors Margaret Atwood, Esther Freud, Alison
MacLeod and Yiyun Li.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408803301
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/21/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	542 KB

About the Author

Kate Pullinger's books include the novels Weird
Sister, The Last Time I Saw Jane,
Where Does Kissing End? and A Little
Stranger, and the short-story collections My Life as a
Girl in a Men's Prison and Tiny Lies. She
also writes for film and radio as well as for digital media; you can
find her latest multi-media pieces at www.katepullinger.com.
Kate Pullinger's books include the novels Weird Sister, The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End? and A Little Stranger, and the short-story collections, My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison and Tiny Lies. Kate also writes for film and radio as well as for digital media; you can find her latest multi-media piece, The Breathing Wall, at www.katepullinger.com. She is currently the Royal Literary Fund's Virtual Fellow and teaches on the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia.