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Fiction|The Online Edition
Burnt Sugar
Avni Doshi
‘I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’
Fiction|The Online Edition
The Skylight
Penelope Mortimer
‘Her body poured away inside the too-tight cotton suit and only her bloodshot feet, almost purple in the torturing sandals, had any kind of substance.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Peak Spader
Ken Babstock
‘Love how unseen / we remain stood undressed in his field of vision.’
Poetry|The Online Edition
Three Poems
Shane McCrae
‘I wanted to and then / Remembered why I want to never’
This Compost: Erotics of Rot
Elvia Wilk
‘Mushrooms sprout from the bathtub grout; disintegrating apples overflow from the trash can. Insects circle. The decomposition is lively and sensorially overwhelming.’
Seeing Things
Emily LaBarge
‘The City of the city is jagged and spiky, tangled, twisted – burned down, paved over, rebuilt, unruly with wealth and poverty side by side, as they have always been.’
In Conversation
Morgan Parker & Rachel Long
‘Everyone should be thinking about how they do their thing specifically, how they can use their influences combined with their own language, music and experience.’
True Story
Toyin Ojih Odutola & Yaa Gyasi
‘What if our art had not been stolen, our people not enslaved? What if we imagined a good story, a righteous and just story, and then we worked to make it true?’
Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness?
Kevin Brazil
‘You never can wholly control the things you cling to. But you can figure out what has made you the surface you are.’
Recommended Reading
Three Poems
Hannah Regel
‘It makes no difference / If the devil has been defeated or if it is your character’
Three Poems
Vivek Narayanan
‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsistence’
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Daniel O’Malley and Alexia Tolas Shortlisted for 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Two stories published by Granta are shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.
Thea Lim in Best Canadian Stories 2020
‘If You Start Breathing’ by Thea Lim has been selected to feature in Best Canadian Stories 2020.
Joseph Leo Koerner in Best American Essays 2020
Joseph Leo Koerner’s essay ‘Maly Trostinets’ has been selected to feature in Best American Essays 2020.