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Funny Bone: Flashing for Comic Relief
60 authors
60 stories
No more than 360 words
Profits to Comic Relief
Wry, off-beat, quirky, naughty, witty, absurd, dark, droll, deadpan, dry.
Comedies of errors, manners, embarrassments.
Repartee, satire, slapstick, farce.
And, oh yes, clowns.
Funny Bone is an exciting new anthology of sixty flashes by sixty of the world’s leading flashers.
Profits go to Comic Relief, a major charity based in the UK, with a vision of a just world, free from poverty.
The sixty authors are: Steve Almond Alan Beard Paul Blaney Randall Brown Mark Budman Jonathan Cardew Peter Cherches Kim Chinquee Sarah-Clare Conlon Steve Cushman Jon Davis Lydia Davis Wayne Dean-Richards Roddy Doyle Grant Faulkner Avital Gad-Cykman David Gaffney Vanessa Gebbie Ihab Hassan Tom Hazuka Kyle Hemmings Tania Hershman David Higgins Allan Kolski Horwitz Holly Howitt Paul Kavanagh Calum Kerr Steve Kissing Tara Laskowski Michael Loveday Sean Lovelace Bernard MacLaverty Paul McDonald Kobus Moolman Sally-Ann Murray Nuala O’Connor Pamela Painter Nick Parker Nik Perring Jonathan Pinnock Meg Pokrass Pedro Ponce Bruce Holland Rogers Ethel Rohan Katey Schultz Robert Scotellaro Ian Seed Gemma Seltzer Ana María Shua Christine Simon David Steward Nancy Stohlman David Swann Matt Thorne Kevin Tosca Meg Tuite Emily Vanderploeg Gee Williams Jeremy Worman Shellie Zacharia.
60 stories
No more than 360 words
Profits to Comic Relief
Wry, off-beat, quirky, naughty, witty, absurd, dark, droll, deadpan, dry.
Comedies of errors, manners, embarrassments.
Repartee, satire, slapstick, farce.
And, oh yes, clowns.
Funny Bone is an exciting new anthology of sixty flashes by sixty of the world’s leading flashers.
Profits go to Comic Relief, a major charity based in the UK, with a vision of a just world, free from poverty.
The sixty authors are: Steve Almond Alan Beard Paul Blaney Randall Brown Mark Budman Jonathan Cardew Peter Cherches Kim Chinquee Sarah-Clare Conlon Steve Cushman Jon Davis Lydia Davis Wayne Dean-Richards Roddy Doyle Grant Faulkner Avital Gad-Cykman David Gaffney Vanessa Gebbie Ihab Hassan Tom Hazuka Kyle Hemmings Tania Hershman David Higgins Allan Kolski Horwitz Holly Howitt Paul Kavanagh Calum Kerr Steve Kissing Tara Laskowski Michael Loveday Sean Lovelace Bernard MacLaverty Paul McDonald Kobus Moolman Sally-Ann Murray Nuala O’Connor Pamela Painter Nick Parker Nik Perring Jonathan Pinnock Meg Pokrass Pedro Ponce Bruce Holland Rogers Ethel Rohan Katey Schultz Robert Scotellaro Ian Seed Gemma Seltzer Ana María Shua Christine Simon David Steward Nancy Stohlman David Swann Matt Thorne Kevin Tosca Meg Tuite Emily Vanderploeg Gee Williams Jeremy Worman Shellie Zacharia.
99 pages, Paperback
Published September 4, 2017
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March 22, 2017
I have a flash in this, and I think it may break the Trades Description Act as it's not funny. Don't let that put you off for this is a fantastic collection, and includes the great and the good of flashers like Lydia Davis, Bernard MacLaverty, Roddy Doyle (as another contributor Jonathan Pinnock notes: a Man Booker Shortlistee, a Man Booker Prizewinner and a Man Booker International Prizewinner). There's also Steve Almond, Mark Budman, Meg Pokrass, David Gaffney, Vanessa Gebbie, Tania Hershman, Meg Tuite, well the list is in the 'about' bit above: take a look.
So as well as being for a good cause anyone interested in flash fiction should buy this straight away. You can do so here: https://storefront.chester.ac.uk/inde...
So as well as being for a good cause anyone interested in flash fiction should buy this straight away. You can do so here: https://storefront.chester.ac.uk/inde...
March 30, 2017
Fabulous collection, fun to read. Will make a great gift, for avid readers and those who maybe don't read as much as they could! Just a quick glance at the authors' list lets you know that you're in for a treat: some of the best short-short story writers out there have contributed!
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