Shadow Ticket
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP
Shadow Ticket
WORKSHOP
€0.00 – €28.00
Shadow Ticket
A Book Club
with Elizabeth Duval, Sara Barquinero
y Alfredo Suárez
Sat 20th Dec
12h
In English y Español
FREE ENTRY
It is important to have read the book before coming.
We offer a 10% discount on copies to anybody attending!
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The Full Whammy:
Eleven Stories, Literary Prize
Eleven Stories 2018 – 2025
(the .pdfs)€10.00Get the bundle of all seven current editions of Eleven Stories in .pdf format, bringing together the shortlist from our seven previous short fiction prizes.
Don't forget, you get €2.50 reimbursed if you enter the prize, just use the promotional code in the receipt!Only the best in contemporary experimental fiction...
ABOUT THE COLLECTIONS:
‘Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices.’—Henry Hoke, 2025 Judge
‘Wonderful: some very subtle, intimate and beautiful, others wildly imaginative and deeply thoughtful.’—Ottessa Moshfegh
‘There is such energy in these stories. Such pulse!’ —Tiffany Tsao, 2023 Judge
‘Reading these stories made me feel glad for the future of short stories.’ —Anton Hur, 2022 Judge
‘In these rich and vibrant stories, the language surprises and delights. From surreal mouse proposals to the catharsis of visible grief, via the uncertainty of memory and perception, each of these stories creates a new, engrossing reality while shedding light on our own.’ —Natasha Brown, 2022 Judge
I loved reading the shortlist selection which realizes the Desperate Literature team’s ambition to reimagine and diversify contemporary writing. The stories represented are inquisitive, irreverential, critical, and fully committed to their respective creative projects. I’ve never been more hopeful for the future of fiction, and the Desperate Literature Prize plays no small part in this.’ —Waidner, 2021 Judge
‘I thoroughly enjoyed reading these submissions, which surprised me with their honest poise, their integrity, and their understated adherence to the values of literature. In the hands of some of these writers, the story form was brought to bear on the modern scene in new and astute ways.’ —Rachel Cusk, 2020 Judge
'The 2019 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize has once again produced a memorable collection of diverse, dynamic short stories. It was a joy to read.' —Claire-Louise Bennett, 2019 Judge
‘The 2019 Desperate Literature Prize has produced an incredibly impressive shortlist of stories. It’s an exciting, powerful and original selection. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.’ —Holly Faulks, Literary Agent at Greene & Heaton
*PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR COPYRIGHT REASONS WE HAVE REMOVED JOANNA WALSH'S SHORTLISTED STORY FROM THE 2018 PDF.YOUR DOWNLOAD WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE RECEIPT PAGE AFTER PURCHASE
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Feral Nature
a one-day workshop
with Joan Fleming
Events, Literature
March 21st
In this one-day writing workshop, award-winning author Joan Fleming will lead playful and generative exercises that invite absurdity, indecorum, and the ridiculous into your writing, via our focus on the natural world.
Expect to spend the day doing close-readings of marvellous short texts across fiction, poetry, and non-fiction; engaging in dynamic group discussion and brainstorming; and going inwards periods of quiet, focussed writing where you respond to a series of prompts designed to get you thinking differently about the possibilities of the page – and the possibilities of our fragile, strange, entangled connections with everything on earth that isn’t us.
The day will include:
€75.00
- Morning session 90 minutes
- Break for coffee
- Late morning session 90 minutes
- Long lunch break
- Afternoon session 120 minutes
€75.00
The Speculative Memoir
A workshop with Micah Perks
Sat 20th June 11h
Events, Literature
Sat 20th June
11h-13h
Max 15 participants
A short-form workshop from award-winning author, Micah Perks!
About the workshop:
How does one tell impossible true stories? Perhaps through a speculative mode, blending fairy tales or ghost stories or horror stories or time travel with autobiography. In this two hour workshop I’ll talk a little about speculative memoir, we’ll read some excerpts by Carmen Maria Machado, Lidia Yuknavitch, Sofia Samatar and/or Sabrina Orah Mark, and do a writing exercise or two to experiment with this exciting genre.
About Micah:
Micah Perks is an award-winning author of five books and many essays and stories. She is a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her memoir, Pagan Time, is about growing up in a log cabin on a commune in the wilderness. Her novel, The Wood Between the Worlds, coming out in 2027, is a queer literary speculative novel about the elusive promise of utopia, the rewilding of the natural world, and the uneasy pull between community and solitude, stability and freedom, mothers and daughters. Micah is currently working on a book length essay about care and transformation in the lives of three older women who fell in love with a baby loon on a pond in the wilderness.
Artwork by Katie Lebel
€15.00
€15.00
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Alejandro Zambra (SIGNED)
GIFTS, Hotcakes, LiteratureTo help raise funds for our imminent move, this month we're selling our signed Alejandro Zambra translations. There's the added bonus of the copies also being signed by Zambra's translator, Megan McDowell!
There's a limited amount, so get them while you can!
...and of course we'll throw in some merch for good measure... ALL EDITIONS IN ENGLISH
€20.00
In Full Velvet
Literature
Sinuous and sensual, the poems of In Full Velvet interrogate the nuances of desire, love, gender, ecology, LGBTQ lineage and community, and the tension between a body’s material limits and the forms made possible by the imagination.
€17.00
"Maybe a voice from the ancients whispers to Jenny Johnson—Sappho or the Muse Euterpe—how to sing of love and death and joy and reality in as many registers as they come in life. Or maybe Johnson is just a genius." — Brenda Shaughnessy
€17.00