Keen to try out a new writer each month without the commitment of a 500 page novel? This is the club for you! Each month we read one short story or piece of narrative non-fiction then meet to share and discuss it. Read the story online then join the Zoom meeting to share your thoughts with other club members.
Zoom link will be sent directly to attendees prior to the event date via email.
The reads for each month are listed below.
October Read: Galehaut, The Knight of the Forfeit by Daniel M Lavery
Daniel M. Lavery (previous Daniel Mallory Ortberg) is a co-founder of The Toast and the author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster, and Something That May Shock and Discredit You. Lavery wrote Slate's Dear Prudence column from 2016 to 2021. He writes an email newsletter at Substack called 'The Chatner'.
November Read: Guts by Julia Armfield
Julia Armfield's work has been published in Granta, The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of Salt Slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2023. She lives and works in London.
December: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards; a Newbery Honor; and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. She received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legend Award.
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