The Long and the Short of It anthology review

By Sarah Laing In Books

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20th August, 2011
The Long and the Short of It is an enchanting publication – slim, creamy-paged, square-shaped, illustrated by Anastasia Doniants, who has a surrealist touch with the coloured pencils. Containing two winners and four highly commendeds, it’s the result of a Unity Books and Sport competition for the best stories over 10,000 or under 1000 words, as judged by Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire and Emily Perkins. I loved Kirsten McDougall’s Clean Hands Save Lives, the winning ...

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