2016 Competition Winner
April 8th 2016
FIRST PLACE: ‘The Iron Which Pierces the Heart’ by ALEX COULTON – the winning essay in the 2016 THRESHOLDS International Short Fiction Feature Writing Competition…
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Carver’s Cathedral
February 22nd 2016
CLAIRE EDWARDS walks us through Raymond Carver’s classic short story, Cathedral: ‘It is as if he has brought the ancient Greek character Tiresias, whose blindness is compensated for by second sight, into the prosaic setting of a living room’.
Carver: An Appreciation
November 10th 2014
In this essay, EVAN GUILFORD-BLAKE finds that Carver’s stories are ‘populated by seemingly uncomplicated people, but they are people who are damaged or empty; vessels, which Carver’s carefully controlled compassion gives us reasons to want to fix and fill…’
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Q&A WITH DAVID VANN
Prize-winning author David Vann answers the questions of the Thresholds public in this exclusive Q&A from 2011. Read here »
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