The Best Short Stories I Read as Part of My Writing Workshop

Written By Ciara Broderick

For: 'Loosening our expectation of the short story and the short story collection'

(1) The Return by Peter Orner
(2) The Deer by Peter Orner


For: Disrupting the Short Story

(1) Two Nurses Smoking by David Means: From 'Two Nurses Smoking. Stories', Farrar, Strauss and Giro  2022

(2) Love by Grace Paley: From Collected Stories, Virago Modern Classics

(3) Depletion Prompts by David Means: From 'Two Nurses Smoking. Stories', Farrar, Strauss and Giro  2022

For everything: Morrison 

(1) Recitatif by Toni Morrison

For: 'Disrupting Expectations' 

(1) 'Inekeen' by Wendy Erskine, from the collection 'Sweet Home' (Stinging Fly Press 2019). 

(2) 'Wales' by Thomas Morris, from the collection 'Open Up', (Granta Books 2023). 

For: “Time”

(1)  Like This by Lucy Caldwell from the short story collection, Intimacies (Faber and Faber 2021)

(2) The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munroe from the collection, The Moons of Jupiter (Macmillan, 1982) 

(3) Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother by David Means

* These and all the other stories in this workshop were curated and recommended by the wonderful Sonya Gildea (@SonyaGildea on X)*


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