‘Details, startling in their originality, explode like little bombs’ in Tracey Slaughter’s winning story
New Zealander Tracey Slaughter has received many awards for her stories and poems, including the Bridport Prize and two Katherine Mansfield Awards“Reading the entries reminded me of how delicate and marvellous a thing a good short story is,” said this year’s Moth Short Story Prize judge, Louise Kennedy, whose award-winning novel Trespasses is to be adapted to screen by Channel 4 this autumn. “No other form can carry such emotional heft in so few words.
Slaughter, a poet, essayist and fiction writer from Aotearoa, is no stranger to The Moth Short Story Prize, as her story Postcards are a Thing of the Past was awarded second prize by the 2018 judge, Kevin Barry. Her latest works are the poetry collection. Her writing has received numerous awards, including the Calibre Essay Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize, the Fish Short Story Prize and the Bridport Prize.
Caldwell, who lives in Dublin, is the author of acclaimed short story collection Room Little Darker, and her debut novel Little Town Moone is forthcoming from John Murray. Her essays and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. In 2020 she curated an exhibition entitled Somebody on the legacy of Nuala O’Faolain at the Museum of Literature Ireland .
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