STORIES ONLINE
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ON WRITING
Alison MacLeod – a favourite short story in 90 secs – for The Sunday Times
On research (and writing fiction) at the British Library for Open Book, BBC Radio 4 with Mariella Frostrup
Writing Tips at Word Factory
Alison MacLeod’s story-writing advice at The London Writer’s Club and at Thresholds: ‘Beautiful Blasts’
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IN INTERVIEW
BBC ‘Front Row’ interview (audio)
Interview with Mariella Frostrup for Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (audio)
Interview for The 2017 International Small Wonder Short Story Festival, with Eleanor Crawforth (audio)
SHORT FICTION journal (text)
Interview with Simon Richardson for BookTrust at The Frank O’Connor Festival, Cork (video)
‘Meet the Author’ – interview for Suffolk Libraries (text)
Interview podcast for THRESHOLDS Masterclass Series with Zoe Gilbert (audio)
Interview for Short Fiction in Theory and Practice with Zoe Gilbert (text)
Interview with Clare Chandler for Bookgroup.info (text)
Cultural Life (The Independent)
‘Favourite first lines’ (The Observer)
BookGroup.Info (text)
Interview for Word Factory with Cathy Galvin (video)
The Toronto Quarterly (text)
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ON LITERATURE
2017 Alison MacLeod on Chekhov for Thresholds (podcast) – with Zoe Gilbert
2014 Alison MacLeod and Maggie Gee with Mariella Frostrup for Open Book, BBC Radio 4
2013 on Katherine Mansfield for Comma Press (video)
Alison MacLeod’s top 10 short stories in the Guardian
Alison MacLeod’s top 10 stories about infidelity in the Guardian
On the power of short fiction in The Sunday Times
On Brighton Rock in Five Dials
Short Story recommendations for The Bristol Prize
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RELATED WORK
Alison MacLeod, Commissioning Editor for ‘The Stories We Tell’ essay series
Advisor to the Pari Center.
Thresholds Short Story Forum – Alison MacLeod created this platform and was Director of Thresholds (2009-2018)
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice – Alison MacLeod, Associate Editor (2009-2018)
Writers at LIBERTY – Alison is a ‘Writer for Liberty’, Liberty Human Rights anthology – for download
New Writing South Alison MacLeod, Artistic Associate
The London Magazine Alison MacLeod, Literary Associate
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OTHER
“Alison MacLeod”, Wikipedia entry
Photos copyright © Kate MacLeod 2019