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& Events ** Dec: The White Road and Other Stories makes it into Amazon UK's Top 10 Bestselling Short Story Collections! **
Feb 2009 Launch of the World Jewish Relief Short Story Anthology Tania will be taking part in the launch event of this anthology http://bettingsiteonline.co.tz/football-betting-tips which includes one of her stories, Sunday Feb 21st, Jewish Book Week, London. Dec 2008 Dec 23rd: Tania talks to Marianne Villanueva on the ninth "stop" on the "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour: Kanlaon. For information on the tour, click here. Tania is interviewed by Smokelong Quarterly about her flash story, Coat and Shoes, published in the latest issue, and about writing in general http://www.bettingsiteonline.co.tz/football-betting-tips. Tania plays Word Association on the eighth "leg" on the "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour: Kelly Spitzer's website New Scientist has included The White Road and Other Stories in its Christmas Books Special: Best of 2008, and the reviewer says: "Inspired by scientific progress and science journalism and driven by an author dripping with talent, this is as good as modern reading gets." Read the full review. Tania talks about the environment, libraries and her typical day on the seventh "stop" on the "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour: The Eco-Libris Blog - and there is a giveaway of a free copy of her book! Exchange Rates, the short play Tania adapted from her story of the same name, which is included in her collection https://www.bettingsiteonline.co.tz/football-betting-tips, has been shortlisted for the Total Beast Six Minute Play competition and will be performed in London, with the other shortlisted plays, in 2009. Tania is On the Couch, talking about short stories and literary influences on the sixth "stop" on the "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour: Eric Forbes' Book Addict's Good Books Guide. For information on the rest of the tour, click here. Nov 2008 26th Nov: Tania talks about fiction and genre on the fifth "stop" on the "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour: Tim Jones' Books in The Trees blog. For information on the rest of the tour, click here. 25th Nov: Momaya Press awards evening, London: Tania received 3rd prize in this year's Momaya Press short story competition 18th Nov: Tania talks about fiction and religion on the fourth "stop" on the "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour: Sue Guiney's blog. For information on the rest of the tour, click here. 13th Nov: Tania is named European regional winner, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Competition 2008-9. Listen to her winning story here. 9th Nov: Tania visits the third "stop" on the "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour: Vanessa Gebbie's News blog, for a discussion on magical realism. For information on the rest of the tour, click here. 7th Nov: Tania is interviewed in the Jewish Chronicle. 5th Nov: The "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour reaches its second stop on the LiteraryMinded blog. For information on the rest of the tour, click here. Oct 2008 28th Oct: The White Road, was reprinted by New Scientist magazine, the science weekly whose articles inspired half the stories in her collection. Read it here. The "Walking the White Road: flash, fiction and science" Virtual Book Tour kicks off on the Keeper of the Snails blog with a discussion on science in fiction. Oct 12th: Tania's book launch, Jerusalem, Israel, Sept 2008 The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival 2008, Cork, Ireland, Sept 2008. Visit the Stories page to watch Tania reading two of the stories from her collection at the festival. |
Interviews For all the interviews which formed Tania's Walking the White Road Virtual Book Tour, click here. Tania has been interviewed by: Smokelong Quarterly The Jewish Chronicle Haaretz newspaper LiteraryMinded (Angela Meyer) Keeper of the Snails (Clare Dudman) WriteWords Nik Perring WritingNeuroses Normblog Articles What We Talk About When We Talk About Short Stories Tania's article was published on the Vulpes Libris book blog as part of short story week |