Willesden Herald

Acclaimed US-based Singaporean writer Wena Poon reads from her prize-winnning story "The Architects". For more information and links please visit www.newshortstories.com and www.wenapoon.com. The complete story is included in "Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 4" (ISBN: 0977852652), which is available direct from the publisher (link: http://stores.pretendgenius.com/Detail.bok?no=33), from online booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells, etc. Your local bookshop can also order it for you if you prefer. New Short Stories 4: Fourteen of the best short stories of the year 2010 from brilliant new and award-winning authors, seven by men and seven by women. The stories are set in Australia, Ireland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US and more. Contributors: Wena Poon, Toby Litt, Julia Goubert, Willie Davis, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Kevin Spaide, Carys Davies, Jonathan Attrill, Peggy Riley, Tom Vowler, Paul McGuire, Jo Cannon, Jarred McGinnis, Henrietta Rose-Innes. Richard Peabody says: "In my next life I'm coming back as the brainy talented author of "The Architects." Talk about brazen, submitting a story about a contest to a writing contest. Does it work? Check. The focus might well be on writers—the same dynamics of love, jealousy, sex, and mentors, applies. New York City is captured in amber. Check. Foreign-born exiles get their due. Check. Authentic dialogue squeezes out sparks. Check. Jokes? Check. Do the juggled balls remain in the air? Check. Yes, I want to be this author, who like a sly child with an Erector Set creates miraculous buildings out of thin air."

"I never work on days when there's a fire in town. It's a holiday as far as I'm concerned, and not just because it means the end of the world to some poor bastard, or family thereof..." "Kid in a Well" by Willie Davis, won the Willesden Short Story Prize 2007, judged by Zadie Smith. Willie Davis is a teacher at the University of Maryland. This story in included in the anthology New Short Stories 1 (Pretend Genius, 2007)

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