Toby Litt short-listed for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
Comma Press are very proud to announce that Toby Litt has been short-listed for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, for his story ‘Call it ''The Bug'' Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title’, specially commissioned for Comma’s science-into-fiction anthology Bio-Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research.
Bio-Punk
(Comma, 2012), is a unique collaboration between 14 short story writers and leading scientists and ethicists in the field of biomedicine. Each story imagines a near-future, exploring the ethical ramifications of current biomedical research, and is accompanied by an afterword written by an expert consultant, expanding on the fact within the fiction. Toby Litt’s contributing story contemplates the possibilities of implant technology, with the afterword written by Dr Nihal Engin Vrana of Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology. The book was produced with the support of the Wellcome Trust.
The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Award honours the finest writers of short stories in the UK and Ireland. Worth £30,000 to the winning author, it is open to anyone with a previous record of publication in creative writing in the UK or Ireland. The winner is announced at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival each spring.
Toby was selected for the short-list alongside Sarah Hall, Ali Smith, Mark Haddon, Junot Diaz and Cynan Jones.
Toby Litt was featured on the 2003 Granta list of Best of Young British Novelists and his story 'The Sandy' was longlisted for last year's Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Award. He is a regular on Radio 3's The Verb and has published two collections of stories and nine novels including Corpsing (2000), deadkidsongs (2001), I play the drums in a band called okay (2009) and King Death (2010). His story 'John and John' won the Manchester Fiction Prize in 2009 and he has previously contributed to Comma’s anthology Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem. He is a member of English PEN and also teaches at Birkbeck college.
More on the short-list here and here.
Bio-Punk was produced with the support of the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England
