THRESHOLDS | 9 Years of Short Story Features, Expertise and Support for the Form – A Historic Archiv

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THRESHOLDS 9 Years of Short Story Features, Expertise and Support for the Form – A Historic Archive, 2009-2018 Welcome To Thresholds October 1st 2018 Following a ground-breaking period of publishing and support – both national and international – for the short story, it is with regret we must announce that THRESHOLDS will no longer be accepting submissions or publishing new content. The University of Chichester is proud to have supported this project and continues to value its significant resources and unique archive of materials about the short story form and its writers. Sadly, Thresholds will cease activity from 02 October 2018. Editor Interviews: Rebecca O’Connor, The Moth July 18th 2018 As part of our new series featuring the editors of literary magazines, David Frankel speaks with Rebecca O'Connor, from The Moth. Off the Page and Into Our Lives July 16th 2018 MELISSA FU finds writing inspiration within the pages of CG Menon's debut collection, Subjunctive Moods: 'This many-layered story is heady with a sense of old ghosts clutching old grudges and snickering at new mischief. I was struck by how different the settings and tones were in the two pieces, but the writing was equally captivating in both…' Fifty Pounds by Weight in Ashes July 11th 2018 MIKE SMITH examines the authorial commentary of Rudyard Kipling’s story ‘The Eye of Allah’: 'Set in the monastery of St Illod it tells of the artist John of Burgos, who early on in the story, travels abroad to find ‘new devils’ to draw, to buy pigment, and to visit his ‘Infidel’ and pregnant unofficial wife…' By the Mouth and for the Ear July 9th 2018 NICOLE MANSOUR responds to the rhythm of William Gass's short stories: 'In truth, this musical heartbeat underpins much notable creative prose. And perhaps one of the finest modern examples of it can be found in American writer William Gass’s seminal collection of short stories, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country…' Teleological Cinema: Film as Language in Arrival July 6th 2018 SHORT STORY ADAPTATIONS: this month, Dr. CHRIS MACHELL takes us into alien territory with Denis Villeneuve's film adaptation of Ted Chiang's 'Story of Your Life': 'Villeneuve restructures the themes of Chiang's text to explore the ways that the visual language of cinema represents time as an experiential phenomenon shaped by memory and emotion…' Hanging on to Dear Life July 2nd 2018 ‘The machinery of grace is always simple.’ Michael Donaghy, in his poem ‘Machines’, writes this of the blind leaps that love requires of us – faith’s gung-ho disregard for gravity. ‘So much is chance…' PENNY BOXALL finds the emotional landscape of Alice Munro's short story 'Amundsen' is a delicate balancing act. Dazzled June 27th 2018 More than twenty years after his first encounter with 'Kleist in Thun', BEN WINCH continues to be dazzled: 'each time I gaze into that mirror—a mirror-within-mirror, and therefore, if the angle’s just right, a particularly dazzling one—I see a different face. ' What I Feel When I Talk About Short Stories June 25th 2018 TRACY FELLS explores the emotional resonance of three very different short stories: 'When you read a short story that thwacks an emotional punch or haunts your daydreams then you have to talk about it. I read at least one short story daily, so what prompts me to talk about specific pieces…?' Alive and Dreaming Wide Awake June 20th 2018 NAOMI FOYLE looks at Arab Sci-Fi in the pages of 'Iraq +100: Stories From a Century After the Invasion': 'a landmark anthology of short stories in a scintillating variety of genres and tones, a book of riveting ulterior visions...' Welcome To Thresholds Following a ground-breaking period of publishing and support – both national and international – for the short story, it is with regret we must announce that THRESHOLDS will no longer be accepting submissions or publishing new content. The University of Chichester is proud to have supported this project and continues to value its significant resources and unique archive of materials about the short story form and its writers. Sadly, Thresholds will cease activity from 02 October 2018. Food in Exile FARHANA SHAIKH explores the homeliness of food in Jhumpa Lahiri's debut collection: 'In Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies food is more than just sustenance, it is purpose, priority and preoccupation…' Venus and Mars on a Winter Break JO COLE finds that women are still from Venus and men are still from Mars in Hilary Mantel's short story 'Winter Break': 'Science demonstrates that the differences between men and women are real. Women have 11% more neurons in the brain’s hearing areas than men so consequently can hear better.' In Him a Bestial Cruelty DR CHRIS MACHELL discusses the themes of James Bond stories and their adaptations: '…as the films were not produced in the sequence of the books' publication, continuity between stories was usually either abandoned altogether or significantly rejigged. This method of adaptation resulted in the films often bearing little resemblance to their source texts…' © 2017 THRESHOLDS Short Story Forum. Blog created by the University of Chichester, Marketing Department

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