Pleasures and Pitfalls of the Short Story

Pleasures and Pitfalls of the Short Story

Saturday 24th July, 5pmOld Swan Hotel, HarrogateTickets: £13Please note that all bookings are subject to a £1.75 transaction fee.BOOK NOW2020 marked 100 years since the launch of Black Mask magazine, heralding a golden age for American pulp and the crime short story. It’s an art of all of its own, giving plenty of bang for your buck, but fiendishly difficult to do well.

Cath Staincliffe, author of Running Out of Road, is a past winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger; Susi Holliday, author of the forthcoming Substitute, has had twisty tales published in anthologies and magazines; bestseller Jane Casey’s short stories include One in Custody featuring her detective Maeve Kerrigan; the latest work from the brilliant Stuart Neville is a short story collection, The Traveller & Other Stories. Master of all stories, Ian Rankin has a watching brief.