Competitions
& Giveaways
Feb 2010
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Greenfly
by Tom Lee
"A
wry, mesmerizing and distinctive tribute to the trampled human spirit.
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read the
full review by Carol Reid |
Easter Rabbit
by Joseph Young
"A
fascinating collection of 86 micro fictions that invite a subsequent
reading, not so much for analysis, but for the sheer immersion into
word and white space..."
Read the
full review
by David Woodruff |
Answer the question to win:
1. Greenfly
- Which hotel does the title character of Mrs Echegary wait in for her lover?
2. Easter Rabbit
- What are the names of the three sections this collection is divided
into?
substituting the title of the book
you'd like to
win for "Book Title".
Good luck!
It's Jan 2010 and we have three books to give away!
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The Body of This
by Andrew McNabb
Won by Angela Readman
"The
boundaries between sacred and profane begin to bleed into one another
intriguingly in this strongly themed collection." Read the
full review
by Elizabeth Rutherford-Johnson |
The Madman of Freedom Square
by Hassan Blasim
Won by
Lauri Kubuitsile
"A strikingly original collection, offering a
view of modern Iraq and
the Iraqi disapora.. unsentimental, violent and often surprising.."
Read the
full review by
Mithran Somasundrum |
Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the
Short Story
edited by Vanessa Gebbie.
Won by Liz
Gallagher
Story
writers, including many Short Review authors and reviewers, talk about
the many different aspects of the short story. Read the interview with
Vanessa on
the blog. |
No difficult questions this month - just
email
competitions@theshortreview.com
by Jan 31st with your subject line
"January comp - Book Title"
filling in which
book you'd like to
win.
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Congratulations!
The winners of the Dec 2009
competition are:
Alison Lang wins a copy of
Kelly Link's Pretty
Monsters
Margaret O'Brien wins a
copy of
Amnesty International's Freedom anthology
We are
giving away two
books
this month:
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To win a copy of Freedom,
answer this question:
In which year did the UN adopt and proclaim
the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights?
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To win a copy of Pretty
Monsters
answer this question:
What
have California and Mexico become in Link's story The Surfer?
(Hint:
the answer is in the review)
Send answers to competitions@theshortreview.com
with the
subject line "Pretty Monsters Comp" by Jan 1st 2010. |
One winner of each book will be
picked at random from the correct answers.
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The
answer to our question is that Rebecca Miller's mother was a
photographer. Many, many people sent in the correct answer... and the
winners are:
Valerie O'Riordan
Dan Powell
Catherine Walter
Sarah Hilary
Andrea Ashworth
Congratulations! A copy of Personal Velocity will shortly be on its way
to you.
October
2009
Canongate,
publisher of Rebecca Miller's Personal
Velocity, have kindly offered us FIVE copies to
give away. Just answer this question:
Q: Rebecca Miller is often described in terms
of her menfolk. In which visual medium was her mother an artist?
Send your answers to competitions@theshortreview.com
with the subject line "Personal Velocity Comp" by Oct 31st 2009,
five winners will be drawn from all the correct answers and
announced in the November issue. |
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