Edge Hill Prize shorlist

The Edge Hill Prize shortlist echoes the pattern of the longlist, with five of the six finalists published by small presses. A Celtic flavour shows up even more strongly at this stage, with two Welsh publishers, Parthian and Seren, and the very new Northern-Irish Whittrick press represented. Of the authors, one is Welsh, two are Irish and one Scottish. Represented here too are those publishers appearing on the longlist as true champions of the short story with multiple entries: of the small presses, Parthian and Salt and of the mainstream, Cape.

The shortlist is as follows:

David Rose, Posthumous Stories (Salt)

Rachel Trezise, Cosmic Latte (Parthian)

Bernie McGill, Sleepwalkers (Whittrick Press)

Jaki McCarrick, The Scattering (Seren Books)

John Burnside, Something Like Happy (Jonathan Cape)